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From: nebel@wam.umd.edu (Chris D. Nebel)
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Subject: Re: how to do floating windows
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Date: 7 Mar 91 16:30:04 GMT
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>>BTW, guys, are floating windows supported in System 7.0? Why, if no?
>
>Because the $%#& thing is late enough already.
>
>BTW, a floating windows package comes with MacApp as an experimental
>enhancment. An official, more complete implementation will be in
>MacApp 3.0.

I remember that in the early docs on System 7 there was a bit about an
extension to the Window Manager that would allow you to group windows into
layers, allowing you to do floating windows fairly painlessly.  However, I
saw neither hide nor hair of this extension on the 7.0 beta CDs.

Did this feature get dumped because of lack of time?  Will it make it into
a future System version (7.1? :)  And will this MacApp thingy do the same
thing?

Chris Nebel
nebel@wam.umd.edu
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