Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!vx2!spector
From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: menu bar
Keywords: masking menu bar
Message-ID: <479@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 89 23:29:59 GMT
References: <2832@skivs.UUCP>
Reply-To: spector@vx2.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stern School of Business, New York University
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In article <2832@skivs.UUCP> choi@skivs.UUCP (Al Choi) writes:
>  I was wondering if anybody could help me in trying to mask the menu bar.
>  If it is possible, I would like to display an image over the menu bar.  
>  I've tried FillRect(&screenBits,black). This blacks out everything on the
>  screen except the strip of bar on the top of the screen where the menu bar
>  would be had I defined one.  I'm using Lightspeed C, v.3.0.  I've also try
>  simply drawing a window over it, but the menu bar refuses to go under.  

How about just doing SetMBarHeight(0) (or whatever the trap is called- look
in IM-IV or IM-V)?  This should get rid of the menubar entirely, and allow
you to use that part of the screen for a regular window. Just remember to
fix the menubar before you switch out (in MultiFinder).

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Alexis Rosen
temporarily at spector@vx2.gba.nyu.edu
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)