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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating windows?
Message-ID: <2036@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 26 Nov 90 22:25:58 GMT
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<HAIRSTON.90Nov26075319@henry.ece.cmu.edu> hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu
(David Hairston) and [andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman) ask for code
to create floating windows on the Mac.  Two solutions:

-- an article on floating windows was published in MacTutor a few years
   ago -- look in the collection volumes.  You can extract the floating
   window source fairly easily.  You'll have to put calls to the package
   here and there in your event loop.

-- The Think C class library has a floating window class, making the
   problem pretty trivial to solve.  I was able to get a floating
   "splash screen" working in a half hour.  Look in the Art Class
   project's "about" function for an example.

In both cases, the window is part of your application and will be hidden
or covered by other applications.  If you want do force a window on
the screen at all times, you'll have problems (will it cover a modal
dialog?) and shouldn't expect the program to work on future Mac os releases.

Martin Minow
minow@bolt.enet.dec.com