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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: disregarding floating windows
Message-ID: <336@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 91 01:04:40 GMT
References: <158305@tiger.oxy.edu>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <158305@tiger.oxy.edu> schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) writes:
>Ok, this one is for all you 'creative' programmers.
>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...)



Watch out for Pagemaker's tool palette.  It uses the standard WDEF, has a 
valid title.  I had to special case for it by checking it's size and title.



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