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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Windoid WDEF -- anyone got one?
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Date: 24 Jun 89 20:51:50 GMT
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In article <3249@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall) writes:
> Has anyone got a windoid/tear-off menu WDEF/MDEF?  I've heard repeatedly that
> the HyperCard windoid will appear in System 7.0; is there any "pre-release"
> version of this code available now?

Well, in my opinion, the best place to start would be the article about
tear-off menus and palettes by Don Melton & Mike Ritter in the April 1988
issue of MacTutor.  They include a windoid WDEF and a custom MDEF that
handles dragging the outline around.  The code is written in THINK C, and
is available on MacTutor Source Code Disk #31.

It does require some extra code in your event loop to handle to handle
the floating windoids, but their scheme works nicely and doesn't step on
the compatibilty guidelines (that I know of).

--
Amanda Walker