Is it possible to bring window to front without taking focus?

Question

I am working on an application for my personal usage that will remind me of stuff at regular intervals and/or will require text entry. Hence this popup window has an NSTextField.

If the window pop's up when I am in the middle of typing, my typing transfers to the popup window which is very annoying! Is there any way to stop this, currently I am using:

[NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES];
[hudWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];

I have also tried:

[NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES];
[hudWindow orderFrontRegardless];

Is there any other way to do it?

The window I am trying to show needs to allow text entry. But yes, I'm also using growl as growl is cool. — Jay, Feb 05 '11 at 04:22
You could bring your window forward if you click on the Growl notification. — Lily Ballard, Feb 05 '11 at 04:29
Have you tried `-orderFront:` or `-orderFrontRegardless:` without `-activateIgnoringOtherApps:`? — , Feb 05 '11 at 04:45
Can this be used to set focus to a desktop and then window of another Process ID's most recent window? — Noitidart, Oct 04 '14 at 05:15

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '11 at 12:02

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[hudWindow orderFront: nil];

Moves the window to the front of its level in the screen list, without changing either the key window or the main window.

answered Feb 16 '11 at 12:02

cocoafan

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '11 at 01:14

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Did you try using setLevel:? Setting it to one of the higher levels should do the trick.

like

[hudWindow setLevel:NSFloatingWindowLevel];

answered Feb 21 '11 at 01:14

Ken Aspeslagh

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Is it possible to bring window to front without taking focus?

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