How to ignore mouse events in a view or window in macOS?

question macOS swift

Ram Patra Published on March 14, 2021

You can ignore mouse events in a window/view by adding just a single line of code.

window.ignoresMouseEvents = true

Or,

view.ignoresMouseEvents = true

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Ram Patra Published on March 14, 2021

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