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- Subject: Re: Persistent Floating Windows
- Sent: 7/3/96 5:30 AM
- Received: 7/3/96 12:39 PM
- From: Keith Mortensen, morty@scruznet.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
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- >I've been thinking about this, and it seems that you have a floating
- >window which you don't want to act like a normal floating tool window.
- >It would seem that you could create an ODF FW_CWindow object, and pass
- >in, for the style parameter, that it's a floating window
- >(FW_kFloatingWindow).
- >
- >This should create a window that can be persistent (if you pass in TRUE
- >for the persistent parameter) and is floating. Also, since it's not
- >based on FW_CFloatingWindow, it won't try to be shared by multiple
- >instances of your part and it won't be automatically hidden when your
- >part is deactivated.
- >
- >You could then provide some extension mechanism for sharing the palette
- >between parts in the document if you wanted to.
- >
- >I don't know if this meets your needs, but it's another possiblility.
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- That did the trick. Thank you!
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