On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:39 AM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote:

> Hello
> I have two monitors attached to the computer, and when i click in
> "System Preferences/Displays Preferences" on the "display" image
> (Display arrangement tab), the screen of the clicked "scematic
> monitor's image" monitor is being surrounded by a red frame.
> 
> How could i do something like this from my application? I don't need
> the red frame around the whole screen, but i would like to have some
> area on the screen. Is it possible to do using some kind of API?


You can use NSScreen to get a list of available screens and then just create an 
NSWindow on whatever screens you want. You probably want a borderless window 
(which is a flag you can pass when you create the window) so that the window 
doesn't have content by default.
--
David Duncan

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