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Subject: Non-draggable child screens
Date: 25 Feb 96 21:50:17 GMT
Organization: Beachy Head - UK
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I have a program which opens a screen, which is 1280 pixels wide -- double the
width of a normal video display. I've opened this with the SA_DRAGGABLE tag set
to FALSE to stop the user moving the screen. I want the screen to move entirely
under program control, and not under user control.

I then opened a child screen of this one, using the SA_PARENT tag. I want the
child screen to stay exactly where it is whilst the parent screen is scrolling
(the child screen is to display status messages, etc.). In order to achieve
this, I've set the SA_DRAGGABLE tag of the child screen set to TRUE (to allow
it to be positioned independantly of the parent screen).

This works just fine. The parent screen can be scrolled around, and the child
screen stays perfectly stationary. However, it does have one drawback: the user
can drag the child screen around using the Amiga key plus left mouse button.

Can anyone suggest a way that I can achieve what I currently have in place, but
with the child screen also undraggable? Setting DRAGGABLE,FALSE for the child
screen just locks it to the parent screen and causes all sorts of problems..

Thanks!

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