NSWindow - Types

1

I am currently creating a framework in Swift to encapsulate NSWindows (for starters)

I am trying to decide how best to define a given window (Document, Modal etc) similar to how Xojo does it…

I was thinking just 3

  • Document [non modal, defaults to all traffic lights]
  • Modal [same as document, but modal]
  • Box [modal, but no title, no traffic lights]

ideas?

2

Doesnt the Xojo ones correspond to the style masks for NSWindow ?
And Xojo lets you toggle other aspects of that style mask for the traffic lights etc

no ?

3

well yes and no… there are more window styles than macOS “supports”, some seem to actually be duplicates of each other.
What I wanted to do was define basic default types, since the mask must be assigned when the window is created (this does not include the traffic lights)

// | .borderless=0 | .titled=1 || .closable=2 | .miniaturizable=4 | .resizable=8 | .fullScreen=16384

and if it is or is not modal, this too affects some INIT features

4

that makes sense too

5

this seems to be the current list

// .borderless	                  0
// .titled	                      1
// .closable	                  2 // red ball
// .miniaturizable                4 // yellow ball
// .resizable	                  8 // green ball
// .utilityWindow                16
// .docModalWindow	             64
// .nonactivatingPanel          128
// .texturedBackground          256 // deprecated
// .unifiedTitleAndToolbar     4096 // has no effect anymore
// .hudWindow                  8192
// .fullScreen  	          16384
// .fullSizeContentView	      32768 // not much use

where anything over 128 seems to be of little use, and I’m still not sure what 16, 64 and 128 do (yet)

6

fullSizeContentView is useful if you want to place (scrolling?) content under the titlebar like how Safari scrolls up under the semi-translucent titlebar.

7

Or creating full height “source lists”.

Or for providing a hiding titlebar so that while editing the user has a bit more “workspace” but when they mouse over the titlebar area it re-appears (also when window is not foreground).