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From: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SmallTalk-80 and two monitors
Message-ID: <17519@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 17:00:47 GMT
References: <6885@portia.Stanford.EDU> <7037@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <7037@portia.Stanford.EDU> carter@portia.Stanford.EDU (Thomas J. Carter) writes:
>I had/have tried enlarging the window that SmallTalk operates within.
>However I still cannot move/open a another window (i.e. Browser) in
>the secondary monitor.  The mouse will cross between the two monitors,
>but nothing else will.  I have one color and one B&W monitor, but
>regardless of the color configuration I just can't get it.  Has
>anyone actually done this?  That would at least tell me if the
>problem lies entirely with me.  Thanks again for any and all replies.

BUt the Browser, or any other Smalltalk window, is not a real Mac window.  It is
an internal object to Smalltalk.  As far as the Mac is concerned there is only one
window, the entire Smalltalk desktop.  What you are trying to do is analogous to
marking a word in MacWrite, or a circle in MacDraw, and trying to drag it out of
the MacWrite (MacDraw) window.  You just can't do that.


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