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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating palettes
Message-ID: <644@uva.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 15:12:43 GMT
References: <7554@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <19995@dhw68k.cts.com> <1989@pur-phy>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <1989@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>>  MacTutor, Vol.4 No.12 (Dec. 1988): "Tool Window Manager"
>
>How is this last article?  I didn't pick up this copy of MacTutor,
>(damn, should get a subscription one of these days) so what I'd
>like to know is how this is different from the stuff in the April
>issue.

The April issue implemented things as a WDEF and an MDEF.  The December
article does things with a parallel set of window routines-- TGetNewWindow(),
TFrontWindow(), etc. that do the normal window stuff and their own pallette
handling as well.  Thus, different approaches to the problem.

Note on earlier question about "Apple-approved" methods: although I
don't know if you could call it an Apple-approved method, Mac DTS WAS 
consulted and "approved" of the April code.

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar & Network Administrator, University of Amsterdam CS