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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Me vs the Layer Manager
Message-ID: <166@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 04:41:31 GMT
References: <5525@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <5525@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes:
>When running under Multifinder, there is a small problem.  Sometimes
>the arcane-but-appropiate trap gets called from an application that is
>not in the frontmost layer.  When I create my window, it appears at
>the front of its layer, but is obscured by other layers that are
>further forward.

Ooh, how mysterious.  I have some idea's but how 'bout letting me (and other
potential helpers) in on what trap your talking about?

The layer manager is not documented (by Apple anyway) but will be in System 7,
I think.  In the Autumn '89 ish of MacTech Quarterly, there is an article about
MultiFinder that describes some of its ins and outs.

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Murat N. Konar	
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