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unit Floating;

{A set of routines to handle floating windows. For use with THINK Pascal 4.0}
{Written by F. Pottier, june 1993. E-mail : [e-mail] on Internet}

{This file looks best when viewed with THINK Pascal's pretty printer. I use Geneva 9 and 4 space tabs.}

{Originally based on a set of C routines written by Patrick Doane (America OnLine : Patrick5) }
{Thanks go to him, and also to Troy Gaul for placing his Infinity Windoid in the public domain}

{This code is placed in the public domain. It may be used by anybody, for any purposes. It would be kind to give credits to me}
{as well as to the aforementioned people, though.}
{If you experience any problems, or have ideas for enhancements, tell me about it. I can't guarantee I'll spend much}
{time on it, since I'm not a professional programmer, but I'll take a look at it.}

{ --- Some general comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ }

{The Window Manager doesn't know about floating windows. To obtain floating windows in a program,}
{one has to handle them 'by hand', which means calling low-level Window Manager routines to place the windows}
{in their correct positions after each event.}
{The frequently used, and now to be avoided, Window Manager routines are :}
{        SelectWindow        }
{        CloseWindow            }
{        HideWindow            }
{        ShowWindow            }
{        DisposeWindow        }
{        DragWindow            }
{Those routines don't know about floating windows, so calling them would put the floating windows behind normal windows.}
{You also have to be careful with GetNewWindow. You can't call GetNewWindow(ID, wStorage, Pointer(-1)) because that}
{would put the new window in the front. Rather, we call GetNewWindow(ID, wStorage, nil) which places the window in the}
{back, and then call our home-made routine, SelectTheWindow.}

{At every point in the program, we maintain three global variables : topFloat, bottomFloat and topWindow.}
{topFloat holds the top floating window, nil if there is none. Same thing for bottomFloat with the bottom floating window,}
{and for topWindow with the top regular window. These three global variables, along with the Window Manager's window}
{list, are enough to handle the behavior of our windows.}
{Hidden windows are placed behind all others, so they don't count when determining those variables' values.}

{In order to distinguish between floating windows and regular ones, we choose a different windowKind for the former.}

{To make hiliting and unhiliting floating windows simpler, I chose to use a WDEF that always draws windoids in a hilited}
{state (e.g. Infinity Windoid with the Always Hilite option). This way, I don't have to worry at all about it.}

{A final remark about modeless dialogs : modeless dialogs and floating windows don't go well together. The Dialog Manager}
{is confused by floating windows. IsDialogEvent and DialogSelect don't work because they use FrontWindow to find the dialog.}
{It is easy to rewrite a modified version of isDialogEvent. It is already trickier for DialogSelect. Maybe it would be simpler}
{to use windows with controls instead of modeless dialogs. Or maybe it's possible to have DialogSelect and isDialogEvent}
{work by patching FrontWindow ? }
{If somebody comes up with a good idea on this topic, please tell me about it.}

{ --- How to use the unit, in short -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- }

{- Call InitFloats once before opening any windows.}
{- To create a new window, call GetNewWindow(id, storage, NIL). Then call SelectTheWindow if it's a regular window,}
{   otherwise call MakeFloat.}
{- To determine whether a given window is a floating one, call isFloating}
{- Instead of SelectWindow[and ShowWindow], HideWindow, DisposeWindow, DragWindow, use SelectTheWindow, HideTheWindow,}
{   DIsposeTheWindow and DragTheWindow.}
{- Upon a receiving a suspend event, you may call HideFloats. Use ShowFloats when receiving a resume event.}
{- Instead of calling FrontWindow, you can read the values of the variables topFloat and topWindow. They should be up-to-date}
{   at any point in the program.}

{ --- Unit interface --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- }

interface

    procedure InitFloats;                                                                            {initializes the global variables}

    function IsFloating (whichWindow: WindowPtr): Boolean;                        {tells whether a window is floating}
    procedure MakeFloat (theWindow: WindowPtr);                                    {turns a newly created window into a floating window}

    procedure HideTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr);                        {equivalents for the old Toolbox calls}
    procedure DisposeTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr);
    procedure SelectTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr);
    procedure DragTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr; event: EventRecord);

    procedure HideFloats;                                                                            {hides all floating windows}
    procedure ShowFloats;                                                                        {shows all floating windows}

    var
        bottomFloat, topFloat, topWindow: WindowPtr;

{ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- }

implementation

    const
        kFloatingKind = 317;                                                                            {arbitrary constant for floating windows' windowKind}

{ActivateWindow hilites/unhilites the window and then generates an activate/deactivate event for it.}
{In order to generate activate events, it mucks with low-mem globals. It would be cleaner to directly call the activate}
{routine for the window. The advantage of this method is that it also works with modeless dialogs : the Dialog Manager}
{doesn't know that a dialog is active unless it actually receives an activate event.}

    procedure ActivateWindow (window: WindowPtr; on: Boolean);
        const
            CurActivate = $0A64;                                                                    {writing a WindowPtr in those globals generates}
            CurDeactive = $0A68;                                                                    {an activate or deactivate event}
        var
            p: ^WindowPtr;
    begin
        if window <> nil then begin
            HiliteWindow(window, on);                                                            {hilite the window}
            if on then
                p := Pointer(CurActivate)                                                            {generate the appropriate event}
            else
                p := Pointer(CurDeactive);
            p^ := window;
        end;
    end;

{InitFloats is to be called at the beginning of the program, before creating any windows. It sets our global variables to nil.}

    procedure InitFloats;
    begin
        topFloat := nil;
        bottomFloat := nil;
        topWindow := nil;
    end;

{IsFloating and isVisible are little, foolprof routines that tell whether a window is floating or visible.}
{Using them avoids errors such as examining WindowPeek(whichWindow)^.visible when whichWindow = nil}

    function IsFloating (whichWindow: WindowPtr): Boolean;
    begin
        if whichWindow = nil then
            IsFloating := false
        else
            IsFloating := WindowPeek(whichWindow)^.windowKind = kFloatingKind;
    end;

    function isVisible (whichWindow: WindowPtr): Boolean;
    begin
        if whichWindow = nil then
            isVisible := false
        else
            isVisible := WindowPeek(whichWindow)^.visible;
    end;

{UpdateFloats updates the topFloat and bottomFloat variables by walking down the window list. It then determines}
{topWindow by taking the first visible window after bottomFloat.}

    procedure UpdateVars;
        var
            theWindow: WindowPtr;
    begin
        theWindow := FrontWindow;                                                            {start from the frontmost window}
        if IsFloating(theWindow) then begin                                            {if it's floating, then it's topFloat}
            topFloat := theWindow;
            while (theWindow <> nil) and isFloating(theWindow) do begin    {walk down the list until we find a regular window}
                bottomFloat := theWindow;                                                    {or the end of the list}
                theWindow := WindowPtr(WindowPeek(theWindow)^.nextWindow);
            end;

            while (theWindow <> nil) and (not isVisible(theWindow)) do    {find the next visible window after bottomFloat}
                theWindow := WindowPtr(WindowPeek(theWindow)^.nextWindow);
            topWindow := theWindow;
        end
        else begin                                                                                    {if the frontmost window is a regular one, then there}
            topFloat := nil;                                                                            {are no floating windows and topWindow = FrontWindow}
            bottomFloat := nil;
            topWindow := FrontWindow;
        end;
    end;

{MakeFloat turns a newly created window into a floating window and brings it to the front}
{The window must have been created via a call to [Get]NewWindow(id, wStorage, nil).}

    procedure MakeFloat (theWindow: WindowPtr);
    begin
        BringToFront(theWindow);                                                                {Bring the window to the front without unhiliting other}
        ShowHide(theWindow, true);                                                            {windows. Make it visible in case it isn't}
        if topFloat = nil then
            bottomFloat := theWindow;                                                        {update bottomFloat et topFloat}
        topFloat := theWindow;
        WindowPeek(theWindow)^.windowKind := kFloatingKind;                    {remember that this window should float}
    end;

{ReactToRemoval handles a few necessary steps after killing whichWindow. underWindow is the window that was}
{under whichWindow (i.e. next to it in the window list).}

    procedure ReactToRemoval (underWindow: WindowPeek);
    begin
        while (underWindow <> nil) and (not isVisible(WindowPtr(underWindow))) do
            underWindow := underWindow^.nextWindow;                                {activate the next visible window under whichWindow}
        ActivateWindow(WindowPtr(underWindow), true);
        UpdateVars;                                                                                    {update the variables}
    end;

    procedure HideTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr);
        var
            underWindow: WindowPeek;                                                        {we must determine which window is under whichWindow}
    begin                                                                                                {before hiding it, because HideWindow sends it to the back}
        underWindow := WindowPeek(whichWindow)^.nextWindow;                {thus changing the value of nextWindow}
        HideWindow(whichWindow);
        ReactToRemoval(underWindow);
    end;

    procedure DisposeTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr);
        var
            underWindow: WindowPeek;
    begin
        underWindow := WindowPeek(whichWindow)^.nextWindow;                {same thing as HideTheWindow, with DisposeWindow instead}
        DisposeWindow(whichWindow);
        ReactToRemoval(underWindow);
    end;

{SelectTheWindow is the most important routine. Here are the steps to be taken :}
{If whichWindow is not visible, show it.}
{- If whichWindow is a floating window, just bring it to the front.}
{- If it is a regular window and there are no floating windows, bring it to the front, activate it, deactivate the former front window}
{- If it is a regular window and there are floating windows, send it behind bottomFloat, activate it, deactivate the old topWindow}
{Finally, update the global variables.}

    procedure SelectTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr);
        var
            wPeek: WindowPeek;
    begin
        wPeek := WindowPeek(whichWindow);

        if not wPeek^.visible then                                                            {make the window visible if necessary}
            ShowHide(whichWindow, true);

        if IsFloating(whichWindow) then                                                     {a floating window just needs to be brought to the front}
            BringToFront(whichWindow)
        else if whichWindow <> topWindow then begin                            {regular window. If it isn't topWindow we have to react}
            if bottomFloat <> nil then begin                                                {if there are floating windows, then send whichWindow}
                SendBehind(whichWindow, bottomFloat);                                {behind bottomFloat}
                PaintOne(wPeek, wPeek^.strucRgn);                                        {These two low-level calls are necessary to generate}
                CalcVis(wPeek);                                                                    {update events and maintain the windows' visRgns}
            end
            else
                BringToFront(whichWindow);                                                    {no floating windows : just call BringToFront}

            ActivateWindow(whichWindow, true);                                        {activate the new front window}
            ActivateWindow(topWindow, false);                                            {and deactivate the old one}
        end;

        UpdateVars;                                                                                    {finally update our vars}
    end;

{DragTheWindow is to be called instead of DragWindow, because DragWindow brings the window to the front unless the command}
{key is down. We use DragGrayRgn to drag a gray outline of the window. We clip the dragging to a region consisting of the whole}
{desktop, minus the windows that are in front of the window we're dragging.}
{To emulate DragWindow's behavior, we send the window to the front, unless the command key is down.}

    procedure DragTheWindow (whichWindow: WindowPtr; event: EventRecord);
        const
            cancelDrag = $80008000;                                                            {returned by DragGrayRgn if the user aborts the drag}
        var
            savePort: GrafPtr;
            wPort: GrafPort;
            thePoint: point;
            newLoc: longint;
            theWindow: WindowPeek;
            dragRect: rect;
            dragRgn: RgnHandle;
    begin
        if BitAnd(event.modifiers, cmdKey) = 0 then                                {unless the command key is depressed, select the window}
            SelectTheWindow(whichWindow);                                                {before doing the dragging}

        GetPort(savePort);                                                                        {save the grafport}
        SetPort(whichWindow);
        thePoint := whichWindow^.portRect.topLeft;
        LocalToGlobal(thePoint);                                                                {remember the window's original position}

        dragRgn := NewRgn;                                                                        {put the window's strucRgn in a new region}
        CopyRgn(WindowPeek(whichWindow)^.strucRgn, dragRgn);                {we can't pass the strucRgn directly to DragGrayRgn}
                                                                                                            {because DragGrayRgn modifies the region}
        OpenPort(@wPort);                                                                        {open a port to draw the gray outline}
        CopyRgn(GetGrayRgn, wPort.visRgn);                                            {set its visRgn to the whole screen, minus the strucRgns}
        theWindow := WindowPeek(FrontWindow);                                        {of all the windows in front of whichWindow}
        while theWindow <> WindowPeek(whichWindow) do begin
            DiffRgn(wPort.visRgn, theWindow^.strucRgn, wPort.visRgn);
            theWindow := theWindow^.nextWindow;
        end;

        dragRect := GetGrayRgn^^.rgnBBox;
        InsetRect(dragRect, 4, 4);

        newLoc := DragGrayRgn(dragRgn, event.where, dragRect, dragRect, noConstraint, nil);
        if (newLoc <> cancelDrag) and (newLoc <> 0) then
            MoveWindow(whichWindow, thePoint.h + LoWord(newLoc), thePoint.v + HiWord(newLoc), false);

        DisposeRgn(dragRgn);                                                                    {dispose of the region and of the port}
        ClosePort(@wPort);
        SetPort(savePort);                                                                        {then restore the old grafPort and exit}
    end;

{HideFloats/ShowFloats are simple routines that hide/show all floating windows. They're useful to handle suspend/resume events.}

    procedure HideFloats;
    begin
        while isFloating(FrontWindow) do                                                {calling FrontWindow twice is not very efficient, but}
            HideWindow(FrontWindow);                                                        {it's shorter!}
        topFloat := nil;
        bottomFloat := nil;
    end;

    procedure ShowFloats;
        const
            WindowList = $09D6;                                                                {this low-mem variable contains the address of the}
        var                                                                                                {first window in the Window Manager's list}
            theWindow, nextWindow: WindowPeek;
            p: ^WindowPeek;
    begin
        p := Pointer(WindowList);
        theWindow := WindowPeek(p^);                                                        {find the first window in the Window Manager's list}
        while (theWindow <> nil) do begin                                                {walk down the list...}
            nextWindow := theWindow^.nextWindow;
            if isFloating(WindowPtr(theWindow)) then
                SelectTheWindow(WindowPtr(theWindow));                            {..sending every floating window to the front}
            theWindow := nextWindow;
        end;
    end;

end.