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- From: ericsc@microsoft.com (Eric Schlegel)
- Subject: Re: Super-Floating Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov09.165423.25417@microsoft.com>
- Date: 09 Nov 92 16:54:23 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1d9d47INN241@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1d9d47INN241@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> dsb@osustat.mps.ohio-state.edu (David S. Blumenthal) writes:
- >I am writing a "virtual keyboard" utility that will emulate a keyboard
- >on screen. I would very much like to have the keyboard in a window that
- >remains fully visible and accessible at all times. Sounds like a floating
- >window?
- >
- >OK. Here's the trick. The window stays in the front, no matter what
- >application is running. The window itself is not associated with the
- >current application, however. The utility will receive clicks in its
- >window, but will not cause the current application to move out of the
- >foreground.
-
- This would be a perfect application of an input method, as supported by
- the Text Services manager in System 7.1. The Text Services manager is
- designed to do exactly what you want. The drawback, of course, is that
- you have to require 7.1. Documentation is also rather scarce at this point -
- I think only people who get the monthly developer mailing from Apple have
- gotten the 7.1 seed disks so far. Hopefully the Developer CDs will have
- information soon, though.
-
- -eric
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- My opinions, not Microsoft's.
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