Hi,

I’m trying to create a shape drawing program. I use a NSWindow as the main canvas area and a floating NSPanel as the toolbar palette (to select the shape, or the editing mode, etc.). It works in that I can select the mode by pushing on a button on the palette but that very action takes the focus off the NSWindow and in the end I have to click on the NSWindow twice. Once to make it active and then a second time to start drawing (dragging) the shape.

Any suggestions on how to return the focus back to the NSWindow so that the user doesn’t have to click twice? Can I set the NSPanel to respond to button clicks without taking away the focus? I’ve seen this behaviour work in Illustrator and Adobe but I’m not sure how it’s done.

Thanks

Use - (void)setBecomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded:(BOOL)becomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded documented at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSPanel_Class/Reference/Reference.html

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Thank you that worked fine. I apologize for not knowing. I had been searching for a way to “set” it in the interface builder and I should have made that more clear. The programmatical approach works as well.

Thanks again.