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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Centering Dialogs
Message-ID: <5454@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 26 Sep 88 00:45:52 GMT
References:  <1320@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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So if the drag rectangle is near screenBits.bounds, it is interpreted to
mean "over all screens".  It sounds like a nice hack, but there's a problem
with sub-windows, isn't there?  There are lots of reasons to have a window
that is constrained to always be in front of another window (help, footnotes,
post-its, etc.).  But suppose you zoom the main window, then drag the sub-
window.  Suddenly the sub-window isn't bound to its window any more.  Is
there some equally clever hack in the system to catch this, or is there are
a work-around, or are sub-window software developers just screwed?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of today, but not to
 lovers of serious literature.  From Prometheus to the Wagnerian Siegfried,
 some enemy of the gods, unterrified champion of those oppressed by them, has
 always towered among the heroes of the loftiest poetry.  Our newest idol,
 the Superman, celebrating the death of godhead, may be younger than the
 hills; but he is as old as the shepherds." - Shaw, "On Diabolonian Ethics"