When I first wrote one of my early programs under the PE for DJC (them
were the days!) I set the outline to the whole screen and drew m y
windows within said outline.

Unfortunately, customers complained that when they clicked on another
program that was visible behind mine, my program was picked instead of
theirs. It was fine with the Pick menu from QPAC2 but hitting or doing a
'visible' window to pick it obviously had the wrong effect.

I had to re-outline my program to use only the space it needed and not
the whole screen. (And Dilwyn told me off as well!)

Now, as for this dragging of the border, I have a vague recollection
that the guys from Belgium (Progs) did some new window manager system
and I'm pretty sure that their system had draggable borders and so on.

I can't remember the name of the application though, but I'm sure it had
to sit on top of QPTR, it was a much more 'Windows' or X11 manner of
operating.


Cheers,
Norman.


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