Issues making a fullscreen & always on top Window

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Created Sep ’23

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I'm making a menu bar app that has a timer, and when a timer expires I wanna show a fullscreen popup / window that goes above all other windows, and stays on top even if the user changes desktop via the "three finger swipe" gesture for example.

This is my current code:

class ZbBreakWindowController: NSWindowController {
    convenience init() {
        guard let screenFrame = NSScreen.main?.frame else {
            fatalError("Failed to obtain the main screen's frame")
        }
        
        let window = ZbBreakWindow(
            contentRect: screenFrame,
            styleMask: [.borderless],
            backing: .buffered,
            defer: false
        )
        
        window.collectionBehavior = [.fullScreenPrimary]
        
        window.contentView = NSHostingView(rootView: ZbBreakWindowView())
        
        window.level = .floating
        window.center()
        
        self.init(window: window)
    }
}

struct ZbBreakWindowView: View {
    var body: some View {
        Text("It works!")
            .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
    }
}

This has two issues right now:

the window or content view height is not fullscreen, it's missing the menu bar height
I can use the swipe gesture to change desktop and the window does not stay on top

How should I go about this? The window will have buttons to dismiss it of course, I'm just making a break timer kinda like (<https://breaktimer.app/#download>)

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Giuliopime OP

Sep ’23

I fixed the second issue with window.collectionBehavior = [.canJoinAllSpaces], still need to figure out the menu bar height

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Answer 2

Giuliopime OP

Sep ’23

Weirdly, if I use styleMask: [.fullScreen] the issue with the menu bar does not occur, meaning the height is correctly the fullscreen height. But I need it to be .borderless instead

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