Uncheck 'Visible At Launch' in the attributes Inspector with the Window selected.
No it will not display until you tell it. So you might do NSWindow *w = [NSWindowController window] This wil cause your willDidLoad method to be called then you might [w makeKeyAndOrderFront]; and if you want it to always be on top regardless of active app you can [w setLevel:NSFloatingWindowLevel+1]; On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Howard Moon wrote: > Hi, > > I've added a Panel to a nib for an audio plug-in I'm working on, and am > having trouble determining how the IB Inspector settings relate to the actual > objects, such as an NSPanel. In the Inspector, there are several Style Mask > checkboxes: > > Utility > HUD > Non Activating > Document Modal. > > What do those mean? The tool tip for those says they relate to the > member styleMask. Yet when I look up the NSWindow member styleMask, it leads > me to a link to the page "Window Style Masks", which lists the following > values: > > NSBorderlessWindowMask > NSTitledWindowMask > NSClosableWindowMask > NSMiniaturizableWindowMask > NSResizeableWindowMask > NSTexturedBackgroundWindowMask > > I don't see what the relation between these is. Is there any? Is it > documented anywhere? I've spent an hour searching and can't find *anything* > that says what those Inspector fields mean (other than the aforementioned > tool-tip). > > I'm trying to show a panel that I've loaded previously from my nib. I > don't want the panel to show until I want it, and I need to show it via code > (in an NSWindowController-derived class I created). But it either shows when > it loads, or it doesn't show at all (when calling showWindow:nil), depending > on whether I've checked the "Visible at Launch" checkbox in the IB Inspector. > I was hoping one of those "style mask" properties might be the culprit, but > I don't know what they do. > > Can someone guide me here, or point me to the appropriate > documentation? (My book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Third Edition, is > no help here.) > > Thanks, > Howard > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/koko%40highrolls.net > > This email sent to k...@highrolls.net > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com