On Jun 6, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
On Jun 6, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
Dear Friends,
I have a question regarding the differences between Floating and
Global Floating windows in REALbasic.
I would like to allow the user to be able to switch between the
two (via a preference) as the DigitalColor Meter allows in OSX
10.4.x. I understand that switching between window classes is not
allowed and wonder if it is more an attribute of the same class in
this case.
Thanks for any help or guidance to the answer.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but an easy solution would
be to implement the window as a ContainerControl, then embed that
into a floating window or global floating window depending on
preference.
Actually, the DigitalColor Meter application window appears to be a
regular document window that can remain frontmost or hide behind
other windows. When the "Float window above other apps" option is
selected, it's active state changes depending on whether or not it is
clicked on. In that sense, it may not actually be a floating window
at all.
I have never actually seen any other app with these same
characteristics but it does make sense in this case where reading the
color values of pixels is its main goal.
Terry
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