Stop panel from floating (being always on top)

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#1

Hi,

I have this panel and it’s my main window actually. It had to be a panel (windows would be so much easier) because it needs to be a HUD.
But the problem is that the panel constantly keeps floating above other windows :frowning: I’d rather do it in AppleScript but Apple has some Objective-C stuff about it on http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSPanel_Class/Reference/Reference.html. There are two things, “isFloatingPanel” & “setFloatingPanel:”.

So I tried this, I created an emtpy header file, called it NSPanel.h and first put - (NO)isFloatingPanel in it but it didn’t work, then I tried - (void)setFloatingPanel:(NO)floatingPanel In Apples references the “floatingPanel” was italic so I thought I needed to give it the name of the panel but again without results… Maybe I need to call it from AppleScript ? or are there other solutions ?

I want the panel to behave like a normal window, not hide on deactivation and not always on top…

Thanks in advance.

#2

Hi put this in an .m file.

Just make sure to connect them in IB.

#3

Thanks :smiley:

And now, (probably as you expected) 2 questions,

  1. Can I just add that line in the main.m file without making a new .h and .m file?
  2. <the question you’ve feared of> What am I doing wrong ?
    I created a new Objective-C class, named it PanelWindow (both the .m & .h file)
    Added [mainPanel setLevel:NSNormalWindowLevel]; in the .m file like this

Then I created a new NSObject, named the class “Window”, created an outlet called “PanelWindow” and connected it to the panel…
→ 2 errors (and I guess when they’re fixed, I still did it wrong)
The first error is in the .m file “error: syntax error before ‘[’ token”
And I don’t see anything about a second error in the “Errors and Warnings” section although the icon of Xcode has a red button with a two in it… I do see “This view overlaps one of its siblings” in the section a few times but that was there before.

Any help would be greatly appreciated…

#4

I can’t get it to work either… :frowning:
I’m sure that what you’re telling me is 100% correct but I don’t have the knowhow

#5

Oh my :expressionless: after searching over and over again on how to use objective-c, I found a plain AppleScript solution !

set the level of window "thePanel" to 0

Don’t know why but if I change “window” in “panel”, then it won’t work anymore… --well, actually doesn’t matter too much, it works now :slight_smile: