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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating palettes
Message-ID: <1979@pur-phy>
Date: 16 Feb 89 08:13:34 GMT
References: <7554@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <7554@csli.STANFORD.EDU> wilson@csli.UUCP (Nathan Wilson) writes:
<I'm considering using floating palettes in an object oriented graphics
<editor (as per a large number number of graphics programs including
<MacPaint 2.0).  I vaguely remember someone mentioning an article on
<how to do them.  Does any one have this reference?  Or for that matter
<does anyone have any example source code that does them?  Are such
<palettes considered a serious violation of the user interface
<guidelines?  Is there or will there ever be an Apple approved
<mechanism for them?  Is there something people like better?

There is an excellent article in the April 1988 issue of MacTutor,
complete with source code.  It's very long, so you probably will want
to get the source disk.  There are a couple of earlier articles on
tear off menus, but they are not as complete as this one.  I have some
floating palettes in the application I'm currently working on, but
they have been customized to my application, so I'm not sure how
useful the code would be.  It would probably be easier to just send in
for the generic version.

Personally, I like floating palettes, as long as they are not used to
excess.  I'd like to see some Toolbox calls to implement floating
palettes and floating tear off menus, but I don't see it happening any
time soon.  Now what I really want the fabled complete rewrite of the
ROMs.  I'd even be willing to shell out a couple of thousand dollars
for a board swap for my Mac II....

-Sho