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Re: Win32 Lib, moving windows

• Posted by Agent Spectre <Email at SPECTRESOFTWARE.CO.UK> Apr 18, 2000
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Why two windows like this? Because morfit requires a full window to itself,
and overwrite almost all win32 controls in that window.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: Win32 Lib, moving windows


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Agent Spectre" <Email at SPECTRESOFTWARE.CO.UK>
>To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:36 PM
>Subject: Win32 Lib, moving windows
>
>
>>How can I tell if a window has been moved using the win32lib?
>>Example, I have an application that uses two windows, and want them to
stay
>"locked" a >certain distance apart.
>
>Just playing devils' advocate here for a second, not sniping at you.....
>
>What if the screen is resized? What if one of the screens is closed, what
>does the other one do? How about what happens if you fix everything, and
the
>user changes the available system fonts out from under you?
>
>I'd suggest you launch *one* window, with fixed child windows inside the
>parent, making the parent window transparent, maybe. Setting the child
>windows to locked inside the parent, and visable only if the parent is
>visable, and making both child windows visable if the parent is active. But
>i am *very* far from a windoze expert, and have no idea how to do that. But
>it does sound pretty restrictive to me. Have you considered just making
them
>both popup relative to each other and thereafter let the user move them to
>their liking? One of the *many* reasons i don't use ICQ is the way it takes
>over the desktop at times, it's not a good user interface.
>
>Kat
>