On 6 Oct 2010, at 12:39, eveningnick eveningnick wrote:

> Hello!
> I have created a cocoa application that has unusual behavior: it has a
> window (NSPanel), which does not activate the application, when it's
> clicked. This window is ordered always on top of the other windows. So
> it's like a "tooltip" window (basically it is a popup thing, that
> drops down when a user types some combination of symols in another
> application - which is a texteditor).
> Anyway, i did it as following:
> NSPanel *popupWindow = [[NSPanel alloc]
> initWithContentRect:NSMakeRect(100,100,300,100)
> styleMask:NSNonactivatingPanelMask | NSTitledWindowMask
> backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO];
> [popupWindow setLevel:NSPopupMenuWindowLevel];
> 
> then i am showing it:
> [popupWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];
> 
> This "window" behaves as expected: it is displayed on top of all
> others, even if it's Application (in Dock, for ex) is not active. It
> also dispatches all the clicks on controls (like NSPushButton's) to
> these controls.
> 
> The problem for me is that i want to receive keyDown events with it.

Have a look at NSWindow -sendEvent:
If you subclass your window you can override  -sendEvent: and access the event 
stream like so:

/*
 
 send event
 
 This action method dispatches mouse and keyboard events sent to the window by 
the NSApplication object.
 
 */
- (void)sendEvent:(NSEvent *)event
{
        
        // look for key down
        if ([event type] == NSKeyDown) {
                
                // process the event
                        
        }
        
        [super sendEvent:event];

}

Regards

Jonathan Mitchell

Developer
Mugginsoft LLP
http://www.mugginsoft.com

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