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I would ask you why you seem to want to keep a specified window on top at all times, regardless of what app is currently interacting with the user? Surely, if the user is working in another app, he *does not want* your window to be on top of all others. Otherwise, he will be interacting with a window which is not the top window, which is hardly good interface design, is it? Simply being able to do something is not the point of the Mac OS – which tends to support things which are in the HIG, rather than 'anything which you could ever want to do with windows'. You may criticise Apple for working this way, but it is precisely this that has made the Mac interface so successful. Supporting total customisation is a great way to reduce the legendary consistency of the Mac interface to the near-anarchy of the past (and, from my experience, its current competitors).