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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hiding the menu bar
Message-ID: <10559@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 3 Mar 90 23:40:28 GMT
References: <17190@cs.yale.edu> <4113@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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From article <17190@cs.yale.edu>, by tarr-michael@CS.Yale.EDU (michael tarr):
>> I am looking for some LSC 4.0 code to make a window cover the entire
>> screen including the menu bar, I want the bar to appear only when a
>> mousedown occurs in the menubar region. (Like in Tetris). Does anyone
>> have code they are willing to share to do this?

In article <4113@hub.UUCP> 6500stom@hub.UUCP (David Stoms) writes:
>All you have to do is save the menu bar area to an offset pixmap and
>thin change the window's visRgn and clipRgn to include the portion of
>the screen that the menu bar covers. If the user click in the menu
>bar just change the vis and clipRgns back and copybits the pixmap
>back. I think that'll work.. yah.. maybe.

Why would you need this crufty save-restore?  Couldn't you just
DrawMenuBar after fixing up the visible and clip regions?  This
avoids stealing bits from the screen and makes the code simpler.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"I may be nuts but a speedfreak I ain't!" -- Robert Crumb