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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Windowoids
Message-ID: <10303@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 90 23:20:06 GMT
References: <1722@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <1722@husc6.harvard.edu> aoki@husc8.UUCP (Edwin Aoki) writes:
>Does anybody out there in netland know the definitions and such for 
>windowoids (try saying that 3 times fast!) - those cute mini-windows that
>hang above everything else don't get trapped as the FrontWindow()?
>
>I see the GhostWindow parameter in IM I, but as I understand it, that's only
>one window, right?  How do I place some number of floating windows above
>the FrontWindow (like SuperCard or Studio/8 et al.)?

The answer -- it's a major pain.  You have to go through and modify the
way you handle practically everything you do with windows, like moving,
dragging, zooming, clicking, etc.  System 7.0 may make it easier in the
special case where you have windows floating above all other layers,
but that code won't run under 6.0 most likely.  In addition, this will
almost certainly not address the equally common case where you want a
subwindow to float only above a single window, such as a
document-type-specific tear-off menu or a footnote window.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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