Re: How do I make a window respond to nothing?

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From: Gregory H. Anderson
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:08

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In article <1992Sep9.153612.10324@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
bill@epnxt.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
> I would like to create a panel to be used as a background and thus not  
> respond to any thing (keyboard, mouse, ect) ...ie never become the key  
> window.
> 
> I can make the window easily enough via IB but I did not see a method  
> which would make the window immune to the mouse or keyboard.
> 
Under program control, use "setEventMask:" to turn off all events you  
don't want to receive. The Window class docs show a list of all events and  
which ones are enabled by default. You just need a different mask.

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