How to change the NSScreen a NSWindow appears on

Question

I have an application that will load a couple of windows depending on which button is pressed. All except one of these open on the mainScreen (the screen in which the main w

Answer 1

I could not get toohtik's answer to work. What I ended up doing was subclassing NSWindow and then overriding constrainFrameRect: toScreen:. This will automatically open the new window on the "main screen" of the application.

- (NSRect)constrainFrameRect:(NSRect)frameRect toScreen:(NSScreen *)screen
{
    AppDelegate *delegate = [[NSApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
    return [super constrainFrameRect:frameRect toScreen:delegate.window.screen];
}

Answer 2

I dont't know why you have that behaviour but you can change it through initWithFrame method that takes NSScreen argument.