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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Implementing floating windows
Keywords: Floating Windows
Message-ID: <41900@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 90 09:18:30 GMT
References: <1990Jun8.032844.22997@athena.mit.edu> <1990Jun8.213433.23258@verity.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1990Jun8.213433.23258@verity.com> anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>Eugene,
>
>What you want to do is get the April/May 1988 issue of MacTutor
>magazine (if you can't find the actual issue, you can buy Volume 4 of
>the book that they sell which contains all the articles for a given
>year)
>
>I recently asked MACDTS pretty much the same question, and that was
>their answer to me.  The article has a sample application and WDEF
>(and an MDEF that lets you tear off menus a la HyperCard) and explains
>in depth how to manage floating windows.
>
>If you don't want to type in the code, you can either buy a source
>disk or let me know - I typed in the WDEF, but not the sample code
>since I'm using MacApp.

MACDTS has got another answer for you now, Anders. And since you use
MacApp, you're already ahead of the game. The next version of MacApp
will implement floating windows and tear-off menus. We're also trying
to make those routines a standalone package so that we can release them
for MacApp 2.0 users. I don't have dates for any of this, though.

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