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From: schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: disregarding floating windows
Message-ID: <158305@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 22:57:58 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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Ok, this one is for all you 'creative' programmers.

I am soliciting ideas for methods of determining whether any given
window in the window list is a floating window (such as the tools window
in HyperCard) or a document window.

Currently, I am using this criteria to determine if it's a doc:
It's title is valid (i.e. the length byte is greater than 0).
It's visible.
Its windowKind is >= 8 (this weeds out dialogs/DA's).

Note: I cant use the hilited parameter because I sometimes need to
do this work while MY window is frontmost (thus causing other doc
windows to not be hilited...)

Basically, I'm looking for this kind of creative thinking: check to see
if the height of the drag bar is less than x-pixels...	(something like
that which should be universally (virtually) true...)