Norman Dunbar writes: > 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!)
Luckily, I wasnt suggesting anything of the kind ;o) I only set the outline to the whole screen during the *interactive* process of changing the size. Obviously, you dont want to be picking other programs at the same time as doing that! Once youre done, the outline is set to the actual size. Had you tried it, you would have seen what I mean. > 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. Prowess is an alternative window manager. We were discussing an idea for simulating outline dragging in Wman. <> Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
