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- From: dens@flammulated.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Resources - Control Window Definition
- Message-ID: <DENS.92Jul30220803@flammulated.rice.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 04:08:03 GMT
- References: <10930@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> <1992Jul30.032541.19247@panix.com>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Lines: 17
- In-Reply-To: os2man@panix.com's message of 30 Jul 92 03:25:41 GMT
-
- In article <1992Jul30.032541.19247@panix.com> os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
-
- > problem : i want to allow a user to change the position of
- > controls on the screen. in fact, i want to create
- > a dialog box editor-like application that will allow
- > a user to customize the interface. instead of saving
- > the changes to a .RES file, i want to make the changes
- > directly to the .EXE. under the macintosh environment,
-
- Good luck. There is no API to do this and OS/2 locks the .EXE while the
- program is executing in any process space. Sounds like you're gonna have
- to write it as a separate file. :(
-
- Wouldn't it be realatively easy to store the window size information in the Extended Attributes?
-
- Later,
- den
-