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From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Windowoids
Summary: 7.0 Will Do It
Keywords: layers window manager pallettes tear-off menus
Message-ID: <638@sunfs3.camex.uucp>
Date: 20 Feb 90 22:37:22 GMT
References: <1722@husc6.harvard.edu> <10303@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: kent%lloyd@husc6.harvard.edu (Kent Borg)
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In article <10303@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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.

True, 7.0 code will not run under 6.0, but 7.0 (as described last May)
is supposed to do what you want with windows.

7.0 does to the Window Manager what HFS did to the File Manager.
"Windows" will now be either windows or they will be layers.  Layers
can contain further windows or further layers.  Windows can be seen
and clicked on.  As with MultiFinder, windows in a given layer all sit
together.

The preliminary notes on 7.0 say that windows and layers should
usually not be siblings, but that is exactly what you would want to
get the effect you mentioned.

7.0 will do it.

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