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From: gjs@k.cs.cmu.edu (Gregory Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Window Manager problem
Message-ID: <1181@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 03:11:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 03:11:42 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 04:22:52 EDT
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Summary: Palettes on the Mac


I have implemented a palette with LSC.  I found that keeping the
window in the BACK rather than the front is painless and avoids
many of the problems of trying to hide it in the front.  The Toolbox
has nothing against handling clicks in windows that aren't in the
front.  Just keep everything the same, but don't do a SelectWindow
on the palette's window when you click in it.  Also, since you'll
probably be using a plain dialog box for the palette, you won't have
worry about any hiliting effects.

The code, depending on what it has to do, should not run you more
than 100 lines, tops.  To make it nice and flexible, you might want
to read a list of PICT resources and position information from your
resource file.

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Greg Stein
ARPA:	gjs@k.cs.cmu.edu

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