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- From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris
- Subject: Re: keeping an MDI child maximized
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- References: <MUFFY.93Jan8122200@remarque.berkeley.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:43:23 +0000
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- In article <MUFFY.93Jan8122200@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu writes:
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- >
- >I have an MDI application which has several children. One particular
- >child is frequently maximized by the user. When they select another
- >child, though, the maximized child is sized back to its previous size.
- >This is annoying, as they then have to re-maximize it. Is there some
- >way that I can tell it to stay maximized until the user resizes it
- >explicitly?
- >
- >Thanks...
- >
- >Muffy
- >--
- >
- >Muffy Barkocy | ~Never had a lot of faith in human beings/
- >muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | but sometimes we manage to shine/like a
- >"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | light on a hill beaming out to space/from
- >not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| somewhere hard to find~ - Bruce Cockburn
- >
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- This is just the way the Window user interface works - annoying, isn't it?
- You should be able to get around it by maximizing your window whenever it
- receives a WM_ACTIVATE message.
-
- Chris
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