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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Window placement
Message-ID: <54256@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 91 19:40:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.230936.28349@athena.mit.edu>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jun17.230936.28349@athena.mit.edu> darth@athena.mit.edu (Darren T Garnier) writes:
>I think someone mentioned this a while back, but I didn't
>see the answer to it.  In ResEdit 2.1, one can stipulate
>that a window (or dialog) may be autopositioned by system 7.0
>in various ways.  Can this be done programmatically? Is there
>some new undocumented version of NewWindow ?  It does not
>appear to be in IM VI.  
>

  My memory is a little foggy on this (not enough sleep after three days at
MacHack...) but I think we implemented the window position algorithms by
extending the 'WIND' resource.  This implies that there's a patch on
_GetNewWindow which parses the new information.  So I guess that means you
need to use 'WIND' resources to get the automagic positioning, and _NewWindow
won't cut it...

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc...
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     Blah blah blah blah....