How to push a popup window above a full screen window?

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Mike,

I've further experimented and tried to set the kCGMaximumWindowLevel 
level to the popup window. The value of kCGMaximumWindowLevel is 
2147483631 which is greater than 2147483629 (the level of the 
full-screen window itself - see the quoted message). Nevertheless, the 
popup window stays behind the full screen window.

Any thoughts?

--
best regards,
Anthony

On 2/17/2012 7:29 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I'm currently working on 7145818 ([macosx] dialogs not showing when 
> JFrame is in full screen mode) and it seems I can't find a proper 
> solution. Here's what I did:
> 
> 1. Tried to setLevel:(NSScreenSaverWindowLevel) to the dialog. Also 
> tried using (NSScreenSaverWindowLevel+1). No luck.
> 
> 2. In CWrapper.NSView.enterFullScreenMode() implementation I tried passing
> 
>> [NSApp presentationOptions], 
>> NSFullScreenModeApplicationPresentationOptions
> 
> as an option in addition to #1. No luck.
> 
> 3. I've also added the following option to the withOptions: dictionary 
> for NSView enterFullScreenMode:
> 
>> [NSNumber numberWithInteger:NSNormalWindowLevel], 
>> NSFullScreenModeWindowLevel,
> 
> which, according to the documentation, must put the full screen window 
> on the normal level. This (together with #2 and #1) didn't work either.
> 
> I've added an fprintf() for [[view window] level] after calling 
> enterFullScreenMode:, and it always printed 2147483629 as the level of 
> the window that has just entered the full screen mode. Note that the 
> NSScreenSaverWindowLevel has a value of 1000.
> 
> The only solution that I think could work is to abandon using NSView 
> enterFullScreenMode:, and instead emulate it by placing the window to 
> the NSScreenSaverWindowLevel when it's entering the FS mode, and also 
> calling [NSMenu setMenuBarVisible:NO] to hide the menu bar and the dock. 
> But this doesn't seem like an excellent solution.
> 
> What could you suggest?
> 
> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7145818
> 
> -- 
> best regards,
> Anthony