On Aug 21, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Corbin Dunn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Override:
>> 
>> - (BOOL)needsPanelToBecomeKey 
>> 
>> and return NO. If you think about it...that is conceptually what you want. 
>> Also, the window could return YES from becomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded, and it should 
>> also work.
> 
> I don't know what Jean Suisse needs, but we've been trying to achieve a very 
> similar goal: clicking on a table view in a non-key window should cause the 
> selection to change *and* should cause that window to become key (with the 
> table view as first responder).
> 
> Yes, we understand this is a departure from standard behavior. But this is 
> the behavior we desire. (The table view lives in an inspector window and 
> shows a fair bit of data, and users expect to be able to navigate it with the 
> keyboard.)
> 
> Unfortunately, the only thing we've done that seems to work is to override 
> -acceptsFirstMouse: to call [self.window makeKeyAndOrderFront:] before 
> returning YES. This feels incredibly hacky. Is there no other way?

Return NO from needsPanelToBecomeKey. Override mouseDown: in the table, and the 
first thing you do is make the window key, and then call super. This way, you 
are manually implementing needsPanelToBecomeKey (well, sort of..)

corbin



> 
> --Kyle Sluder


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