there should be a way, no? i mean, even built-in spotlight accepts keyboard events without the front app loosing focus. you could try this: activating the focus on your app in order to accept keyboard events, and then resign focus back to the window that had focus. although i think that quick shift might be noticeable and therefore look ghetto, but it's worth a shot. another though that just came to mind is perhaps having some sort of invisible helper app running that could be used simply to direct keyboard events to your app when it is activated without the current front app loosing focus? maybe? just a thought.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Michael Ash<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:15 PM, John Ku<[email protected]> wrote: >> I got to play around >> with your suggestions but still cannot get it to not loose focus. >> Thought it did give me a better perspective on how levels, frames, >> keys work. >> Thank you for that. >> I have the NSWindow and removed NSView for testing, but when I clicked on >> the NSWindow, it'll still switch focus to it. I got the level working, >> always floating ontop of windows, but just need a way for my app to not >> become key or attract focus, but still able to receive keyboard/mouse >> events. > > You can't. If you want to receive keyboard events then you must have > focus. If you don't want to have focus, then you can't receive > keyboard events. Pick one or the other, because you can't have both. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/chunk1978%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
