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Pedro Vieira
Pedro Vieira

Reputation: 3370

How to make a circle floating window like the QuickTweet Mac app

app link: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/quick-tweet/id505987287?mt=12
How can i make something like that circle? is that a transparent window, or...? I would like to create something like that in my application. A circle that can be dragged to anywhere in the desktop (even in front of any application wether its in fullscreen or not), and when a user clicks the button a popover appears.
If there's some code that does that, i would be very grateful.
Thank you!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 571

Answers (1)

Ken Thomases
Ken Thomases

Reputation: 90661

Check out Apple's RoundTransparentWindow sample code.

You basically make a borderless window, set to be non-opaque, and set to have clear as its background color. Then, whatever the shape of its content – whatever is drawn in its content view – is the shape of the window.

Upvotes: 1

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