> On 30 Mar 2015, at 17:34, Steve Mills <sjmi...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:14:17, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> > wrote: >> >> Makes sense considering that sandboxed apps don't run their own open panel. >> Instead the accessory view appears to be hosted in a borderless window that >> gets attached (at the Window Server level, I'd presume) to the actual open >> panel that runs in the PowerBox process. So it'd probably just let through >> any clicks in transparent areas to PowerBox in the underlying window. > > Jeez, what a horrible hack. But then, it is sandboxing we're talking about, > which is by design an ugly hack. :) > >> A workaround would probably be to use a plain NSBox as your accessory view >> and fill it with a solid color (e.g. an opaque version of the color that a >> standard-appearance NSBox uses to fill itself). of course that'd run the >> risk of looking a bit ugly if Apple changes the color used for that. I don't >> see an obvious color for NSBox contents in NSColor.h. > > That seems to work, but I'm not going to fix Apple's ugly hack by adding an > uglier hack.
Slightly less ugly idea, how about filling the background of your accessory view with something like 1% alpha? Would that be enough to direct clicks to the right place, without being visible to the human eye? _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
