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From: clif_w1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Statusline Window in Application using MDI
Message-ID: <2769.285bb322@verifone.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 04:51:13 GMT
References: <1978@nixsin.UUCP>
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI
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> Does anybody know how the Windows File Manager sets up the status line
> window positioned at the bottom of the frame window?
> The child windows can be moved over the statusline, covering it up. When
> these child windows are moved away again, the statusline does not get
> re-painted. I am really kind of blurr (this is Sing-lish) about this...

I tied the same setup, not using mdi; but I found that the resizing and
painting was too slow.  I used spy on the File Manager and found that their
status line is not a child window but is simply painted onto the client window.
So that's what I do now, seems to work fine.



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