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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Resizable windows
Message-ID: <45680@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 06:43:10 GMT
References: <90287.182643CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Oct15.020733.16435@engin.umich.edu> <1990Oct15.190508.8408@svc.portal.com>
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In article <1990Oct15.190508.8408@svc.portal.com> leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>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.  

I don't think that we'll ever change the size of the grow icon. If we 
did, every scrollbar in the world would fail to line up with it.

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