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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: how to do floating windows...
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Date: 25 Feb 91 02:40:36 GMT
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Yossie Silverman writes in a message to All

YS> I am looking for some concrete information (or samples) on how 
YS> to do floating windows in an application. I can see two methods: 

The Think Class Libraries have a Floating Window implementation...

The basic idea is to have a clipRgn that is called before any window updates
are done that dis-allows any drawing over the entire floating window. I don't
know any more then that, but if you ahve the TCL's look in the CFWDeskTop methods...


Lawson
 

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