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From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating palettes
Message-ID: <10740@well.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 16:37:05 GMT
References: <7554@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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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?

MacTutor April 88, p. 26ff, MacTutor December 88, p. 76ff.

I'm using code from the first article in an application.  It's good code,
except for an ommission or two.  You can get the code on disks from MacTutor.

I believe there is a user-interface document published by apple, describing
the appropriate uses for windoids, and the way they should be invoked.  This
also covers tear-offs.  Hypercard, of course, violates the guidelines.  The
second article includes a discussion of interface issues.

-Bill