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Re: Global floating windows and appe's

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Subject: Re: Global floating windows and appe's
From: akosu <realbasic at pth-akosu dot nl>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:18:34 +0100
Hi Antonio,

I just build a simple app trying to do the same as you did. The result I get are the same as you (with RB 5 it is even worse). But I tried also to build the MacOSX version and use it on MacOS9: the appe could succesfully be launched and the global floating window works all right.

It was not a wild guess. Because I know how to write Macintosh application in C++, I knew that there is a difference between the two WindowManagers. The Carbon Window Manager has support for global-floating windows, where the classic Window Manager does not. As a result, a non-carbon application has to implement this global floating trick by itself (misusing an API that was created for something else). From building my own C++ application framework, I remember that this wasn't easy.

Happy programming,
Eddy Walet
PTH

Antonio Cocco wrote:

I made a small appe that control periodically e-mail accounts, and when found new messages, displays the results in a global floating window.

When functioning as APPL all it's ok, but when the only background bit is set, the global floating window does not receive any cllick on the window title, so it's impossible to move the window. Strangely the close button behaves properly.

Any clue?

Thank You.





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