Monday 26 March 2007
Aqua: utility windows
Par ismael, Monday 26 March 2007 à 21:15 :: General
In my work to have aqua windows which respect better the AHIG (see my previous post), i encountered a very annoying bug: utility windows were in front of all windows, including windows of another activated application.
On this screenshot XCode is the activated window and OpenOffice is behind it but the OOo Style Window is in front of XCode.
(The transparency is just for fun and to see what is behind the utility window)
But now the bug is fixed, utility windows are only visible when their parent document window is activated. When another application is activated or another OpenOffice.org document window, utility windows disappear. They also disappear when Exposé (a MacOS X feature which shows all the windows opened in the same view) is launched (which is the correct behavior as Exposé only shows document windows and main windows but not dialogs).
I don't put a screenshot of the working solution because when another application is the top most window, the utility window disappears and so there's nothing to see. ;-)