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From: mmaston@portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Maston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Help with windows
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.025455.27163@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Jan 91 02:54:55 GMT
References: <7126@crash.cts.com>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <7126@crash.cts.com> lkoop@pnet01.cts.com (Lamonte Koop) writes:
>I need some ideas as to how to approach an interesting problem (which may or
>may not have an easy solution).  I have a window which I open onto a custom
>screen.  This window is then completely covered by an image (Window flags
>BORDERLESS | WINDOWDRAG | ACTIVATE)  This is a small window BTW.  Anyway,
>Everything's peachy until the window becomes inactive...then the drag bar,
>which was invisible until now, appears and destroys the upper portion of the
>image (generally making a mess).  Now, is there any way to disable the "mask"
>effect on the drag bar without disabling the window dragging option? [and the
>subsequent refresh of the drag bar which destroys more].  If anyone knows of a
>way...or can confirm that I'm going to have to do this the hard way, please
>post or email me.  Thanks in advance.

I think if you make it a GIMMEZEROZERO window (as outlined in the 1.3 ROM
Kernal Manual), it will make these gadgets (drag bar,etc) on a different
layer, keeping them from messing up your bitmap.  Apparently this gobbles
a little more CPU time when you move it around, but I believe it will 
achieve what you are looking for....

Michael Maston
GTE Government Systems
Mt. View, CA  94039