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From: hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: WDEF Question
Message-ID: <HAIRSTON.90Dec12135811@henry.ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 18:58:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu's message of 12 Dec 90 06:43:52 GMT

[252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes:]
[] I have decided that I want to write a custom window definition.  But
[] first, I grabbed an existing WDEF resource (a Windoid WDEF in Think C's
[] Art Class project to be exact) and all I want to do for the time being is
[] put up a window using the windoid.  I could have sworn I used to be able
[] to write
[]
[]   w = NewWindow(0L,&rekt,"\pBlah",isVisible,ProcID,-1L,hasGoAway,refcon);
[]
[] where ProcID is the resource ID of my WDEF (the Windoid's is 200).
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
not quite ...

(short) ProcID = (16 * (WDEF rsrc ID)) + (variation code)

assuming a varCode of 0 and WDEF ID of 200 then you want ProcID = 3200.

additional references: IM-I, Window Manager.

  -dave-  
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu