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From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle)
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Subject: Re: Does system 7.0 support ResEdit 2.1's Auto Positioning for windows?
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Date: 28 May 91 20:19:08 GMT
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In article <1991May27.005435.26313@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes:
>ResEdit 2.1 allows you to set an "Auto Position" attribute for 'DLOG',
>'ALRT', and 'WIND' resources.  After browsing through IM-VI and the
>ResEdit 2.1 manual I didn't see any explanation of how the Window
>Manager will auto-position windows, or how to indicate to the Window
>Manager which window is a another window's parent. Was this feature
>planned for system 7.0 but didn't make it by the release date, or am I
>overlooking something?

This info is discussed at some length in Volume VI's Window Manager
chapter. You can now get the window manager to auto position windows
just about any way you can imagine...

Jack Brindle
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