Global Floating without border

ChristopheDV · July 25, 2018, 5:12pm

I need a way to have a Global Floating Window without the borders.
Or a Plain Box that behaves like a Global Floating window.

Any pointers how to do this?

BTW macOS

shao_sean · July 25, 2018, 5:33pm

Pick it from the window’s Frame Type property (on the inspector in the IDE)

Christian_Schmitz · July 25, 2018, 5:39pm

Maybe an overlay window?

See OverlayMBS class in MBS Xojo Plugins.

ChristopheDV · July 25, 2018, 5:42pm

Not sure what you meant here.

Of course I can set it to ‘Global Floating’ or ‘Plain Box’.
But a Global Floating window has a border. A plain box has no border but is not always on top.

I need a window without borders and it needs to be globally on top of every window.

ChristopheDV · July 25, 2018, 5:43pm

[quote=397818:@Christian Schmitz]Maybe an overlay window?

See OverlayMBS class in MBS Xojo Plugins.[/quote]

I forgotten to add it needs all the events from a normal window too. It needs to behave 100% like a normal window which isn’t possible (or easy) with Overlays.

ChristopheDV · July 25, 2018, 6:02pm

Found it with MBS plugins:

dim w as NSWindowMBS = self.NSWindowMBS w.TitlebarAppearsTransparent = true w.StyleMask = BitwiseOr(w.styleMask, w.NSFullSizeContentViewWindowMask) w.TitleVisibility = w.NSWindowTitleHidden