MBSOverlay floating over everything, not just my application

Hamish · **Joined:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:39 am **Posts:** 12

Hi -
I'm trying to make an overlay window with MBSOverlay which is the topmost in my application, but which doesn't float over all the other applications on my screen as well. (i.e. if I drag Safari over the top of my application, I don't want to see the little floating window over Safari.). I'm currently testing on Mac OS X Lion with Cocoa, but I'll need it to work on Windows as well.

I'm using the example of Overlay Test which comes with the MBS plugins, and in the Create method of Window1 I've changed the boolean values of the line

o=new MyOverlay(500,100,128,150,true, false)

to be all four possible combinations, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I'm sure it's a simple thing I'm overlooking; any pointers in the right direction received with glee.
Thanks,
Hamish

MonkeybreadSoftware · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:04 am

an overlay is globally overlaying. You could simply hide it when the app goes to background...

Greetings
Christian

Hamish · **Joined:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:39 am **Posts:** 12

That'd be why I can't find out how to do it, then

Thanks for the tip and the speedy reply, Christian.
H

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