At the 1993 MacHack, I wrote two utilities using the "Text Services" feature of System 7.1 that put up floating windows without patching a lot of window manager traps or depending upon undocumented globals or traps. This document accompanies these two applications ("AppBar" and "pLayer").
In the process of writing the applications, some limitations appears. I wrote an INIT that provides services for these sort of applications that solve some but not all of these problems. That INIT ("TSMHelper") is also included.
See the about files for the three utilities for full explanation of them.
DISCLAIMER
While the copyright is owned by CE Software, this is a private, non-commercial project of Donald Brown. You may freely copy the program and use it. It may be uploaded to BBSes and included in software library exchange disks, provided this file is copied along with it. Programmers may use the code provided in their own projects so long as acknowledgement is given.
As a private, non-commercial project, NO SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS PROGRAM, either for users or programmers. It is guaranteed to have bugs (no significant ones I am currently aware of, but it is possible they exist). Neither Donald Brown nor CE Software will be responsible for any problems encountered while using this software. Comments/recommendations/complaints may be sent to the author on the following accounts: AppleLink: DON.BROWN. America Online: Don Brown. CompuServe: 70712,305. I look forward to your feedback, but cannot promise any responses.
