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From: bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Does a window have to come up white?
Message-ID: <10050028@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 88 13:39:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.10050028
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> So, what do I do?  I tried opening an invisible window, setting
> it's background pattern to gray, and then calling ShowWindow().
> Unfortunately, the window comes up white, and doesn't go to
> gray until I call an EraseRect().  As you could imagine, it
> is extremely distracting to have this flash of white before
> things go to gray.  Is there any way to gray out all of the
> screen except the menu bar without having a flash of white
> first and without being extremely MultiFinder unfriendly (i.e.
> not using a window)?

One idea: Have you tried FillRect( Window^.portRect, pattern), before
you show the window?