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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
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Subject: It does, thanks: (was Re: Does 7.0 do Auto Positioning for windows?)
Message-ID: <1991May29.133839.22483@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 13:38:39 GMT
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In article <1991May28.201908.8580@MDI.COM> jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) writes:
>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...

I did read a version of IM-VI, though evidently Apple has quite a few
versions floating around. The one I'm talking about is the one DTS
mailed us and which arrived almost on the same day as Quantum Books
received their shipment. I simply assumed that this was the final
version, though there were obvious ommissions (see above). Evidently,
I now must fork over another $40 to own the real IM-VI. Makes me wonder
how committed DTS is to us registered developers.