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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Resizable windows
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.190508.8408@svc.portal.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 19:05:08 GMT
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In article <1990Oct15.020733.16435@engin.umich.edu>,
mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
> In article <90287.182643CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes:
> >Problem:  I want a resizable window, with the grow box in the lower right
> >and all that, but I do not want any scroll bars.  I JUST want the box that
> >indicates the window is resizable.
> >
>   If you're going to use the standard WDEF, you can set the clip region of 
> your window to a 16 by 16 square that's in the bottom right of your window
> before calling _DrawGrowIcon.  The grow icon will be drawn, but the lines
> for the scroll bars will be clipped out.
>
	There is, however, one problem with this...What if Apple ever changes
the size of the 'GrowIcon', then you either end up with extra stuff, or not
enough?  This will also effect utilities like Personality and ClickChange
which allow the user to change the WDEF in use.  
	The PROPER solution is to write a WDEF, and second, I think would
be to at least stub the standard WDEF and handle the wGrowMsg message 
yourself.  Admittedly, writing a WDEF is not entirely trivial, but Apple
supplies source to theirs, and you can just mod the appropriate parts.

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures
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Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team