Allow click and dragging a view to drag the window itself?

Question

I\'m using a textured window that has a tab bar along the top of it, just below the title bar.

I\'ve used -setContentBorderThickness:forEdge: on the window to make t

Answer 1

I found this here:

-(void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent {    
    NSRect  windowFrame = [[self window] frame];

    initialLocation = [NSEvent mouseLocation];

    initialLocation.x -= windowFrame.origin.x;
    initialLocation.y -= windowFrame.origin.y;
}

- (void)mouseDragged:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
    NSPoint currentLocation;
    NSPoint newOrigin;

    NSRect  screenFrame = [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame];
    NSRect  windowFrame = [self frame];

    currentLocation = [NSEvent mouseLocation];
    newOrigin.x = currentLocation.x - initialLocation.x;
    newOrigin.y = currentLocation.y - initialLocation.y;

    // Don't let window get dragged up under the menu bar
    if( (newOrigin.y+windowFrame.size.height) > (screenFrame.origin.y+screenFrame.size.height) ){
        newOrigin.y=screenFrame.origin.y + (screenFrame.size.height-windowFrame.size.height);
    }

    //go ahead and move the window to the new location
    [[self window] setFrameOrigin:newOrigin];
}

It works fine, though I'm not 100% sure I'm doing it correctly. There's one bug I've found so far, and that's if the drag begins inside a subview (a tab itself) and then enters the superview (the tab bar). The window jumps around. Some -hitTest: magic, or possibly even just invalidating initialLocation on mouseUp should probably fix that.