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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: DragHook question
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Date: 18 Oct 89 02:25:30 GMT
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In article <2583@hub.UUCP> pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu writes:
>In article <5233@lindy.Stanford.EDU> GG.DAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Aaron Reizes) writes:
>
>> Is there a way to know the coordinates of the current drag rectangle
>> from the DragHook routine?
>
>I would imagine that since the front window is the one that gets its
>size box dragged, you could dereference FrontWindow, or, better, put a
>WindowPeek in a global and dereference that.

Careful now. Think twice about this!  

In applications that use floating palettes (Hypercard, MacPaint 2.0, Fullpaint,
etc.) the front window IS NOT NECESSARILY THE ONE THAT GETS DRAGGED!  Even under
more traditional applications, the user can drag a window without activating 
it by holding down the command key.  

 
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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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