Mouse Down events in Objective-C

Question

I know this question has been asked a lot before, but nothing will work for me. The following code will not do anything at all.

- (void) mouseDown:(NSEvent*)         


        

Answer 1

You're overriding the NSWindow class, you should be overriding the NSView "contentView" of the NSWindow class to capture mouse events. Most of the decorations (NSViews) on the window outside of the contentView are private.

Just create a new NSView that overrides mouseDown, etc and add it as your content view to the NSWindow object.