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From: dbrenner@sparta.weeg.uiowa.edu (Doug Brenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Interface Builder observations
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Date: 15 Feb 91 19:36:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us's message of 15 Feb 91 09:14:45 GMT

In article <423@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
           (Glenn Reid) writes:
> 1.  It is the only program I've seen that draws outside its
>     windows onto the rest of the screen (when you control-drag
>     to make a connection).  How on earth does it do this?  It
>     seems like it must be a hack; I haven't seen any support
>     for it in the AppKit

I certainly don't know the answer to this, but I thought someone once
suggested the connection lines were actually very thin windows.  (You
can all start laughing and flaming at me now. :-)