Hi, My app currently needs to show a progress bar during startup (Yes, I know - I'm working on a better solution so this isn't going to be needed at all longer term). The problem I'm having is how to set this up correctly with respect to its active appearance. Other apps generally seem to use a normal modeless dialog type window with the full height title-bar with the name of the app in it. I do that, and also put the window into the 'modal dialog' layer (also tried 'status window' layer).
At first all is well, but as my app starts up and creates its first document window, that steals focus from the progress window which, though it remains in front, becomes inactive in appearance. Ideally I'd like to be able to have it remain having its active appearance even as the opened document also has an active appearance (or perhaps for the document to open inactive and become active when the progress bar completes and its window is hidden). Is there a way to do this without subclassing the window itself and forcing the active state using an override to the private _hasActiveControls method? For obvious reasons I dislike that "solution". I also tried using a utility style window and that does work for keeping the controls active but has the wrong title bar appearance. Also, while I'm on the subject, what is the "Non-Activating" checkbox in IB for NSWindow for? It doesn't seem to be listed as one of the flags in the Window Style masks. --Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
