Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!daisy!klee
From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Persistent Canvases
Message-ID: <841@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 21:44:28 GMT
References: <8802111706.AA18085@fcs50a.ncifcrf.gov>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <8802111706.AA18085@fcs50a.ncifcrf.gov> mcgregor@NCIFCRF.GOV writes:
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>I have a beginng NeWS user question:
>
>	I am running Suntools' Mailtool.  I click on the 'done' button.
>	The Mailtool icon appears at the upper left corner.  The Mailtool
>	canvas (or is it still a window even under NeWS) persists, but is
>	non-functional.  Is there a reasonably simple explanation for this?

Remember that mailtool is a SunView program written for the SunView
environment (suntools, etc.).  Sun was careful to make these work under
NeWS, but there are some differences between NeWS and SunView window
management.  These mainly show up in event handling, such as repainting
(your problem) and mouse following (hence the DMZ around SunView
windows).  All these problems are documented in the NeWS manual.  Your
problem is that the NeWS background (under the mailtool) is not
repainted when you close the mailtool.  If you wish, you can manually
repaint, choosing the function from the NeWS root menu.

Ken