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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Dissasociating a Window from an Application
Message-ID: <12935@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 89 02:15:42 GMT
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In article <130039@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>Is there a way to dissasociate a Window from the application that created
>it?  I don't want this window to hide when the application hides, or the
>application to unhide when the window is clicked on.

I hope you have a good reason to want to do this, Jacob...  That behaviour
isn't consistent with the UI guidelines --- "When an application is hidden,
only its freestanding or docked icon remains on-screen."

Anyway, as you can gather, there's no official way. However, anything's
possible... What seems to work in this case is to have the Application's 
appDidHide: delegate method send an orderFront: message to the window you 
want to remain unhidden.  One line of code! 

The window remains behind (actually goes away and comes back), along with the
app icon. When you click on the window, the menu for the application also
appears. However everything else remains hidden unless you explicitly start
making windows come to front through menu commands.

Ali













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