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- From: REEKES@applelink.apple.com (Jim Reekes)
- Subject: Re: Super-Floating Windows
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <REEKES-091192130333@90.10.20.67>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:00:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.233141.20362@netcom.com> <5570@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <74077@apple.Apple.COM> <BxD0Lu.Bzw@world.std.com>
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- In article <BxD0Lu.Bzw@world.std.com>, siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
- wrote:
- >
- > In article <74077@apple.Apple.COM> grobbins@Apple.COM (Grobbins) writes:
- >
- > >The most serious problem is that punching a hole assumes that you can
- > >unpunch the hole later (if the window moves or closes). That requires
- > >knowing what the gray region should be, but what it was when you
- > >punched the hole may not be what it is when you attempt to unpunch the
- > >hole. (The gray rgn changes if, say, one of the monitors has moved.)
- > >It is not safe to assume that the gray region should be restored to
- > >whatever it was when the hole was punched.
- >
- > Actually, monitors can't move except across restarts of the system, so
-
- Well, I would say that monitors currently might not move, but don't make
- any assumptions about the future. Also, don't the Radius Pivot "move"
- the monitor?
-
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