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From: wim@ecn.nl (Wim Rijnsburger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: How to obtain the window hierarchy
Summary: NeWS2.0 supports this
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.121526.14709@ecn.nl>
Date: 12 Jun 90 12:15:26 GMT
References: <1300@software.software.org> <54110@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM>
Reply-To: rijnsburger@ecn.nl (Wim Rijnsburger)
Organization: Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN
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In article <54110@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> mh@awds26.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman) writes:
>>
>>	How can you obtain information concerning the window
>>hierarchy, e.g. all of the created windows, their parents, their
>>size and location, etc?
...
>    canvases have in them attributes such as TopChild CanvasAbove
>    CanvasBelow etc... see NeWS ref. man. for descriptions.

NeWS version 2.0, which we have in beta here, supports this with:

	- canvasesunderpath
	- canvasesunderpoint

Wim.

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