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In article <1993Jan22.085919.23082@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> gtd543a@sol.crt.columbia.edu (death) writes:

 > It is possible to set up some sort of program like an X-Windows
 > window manager, so that you can define the way all other applications
 > in your environment run (colors, border styles, etc.), be able to do
 > things like bring up menus for each mouse button, etc.????

Windows 3.x isn't really set up to make writing window managers (ala
UNIX and X Windows) easily possible. If you were to write replacements
for USER.EXE and GDI.EXE (these files are really DLL's which make up
most of Windows's user interface code), you can control the way the
interface looks. (And you wouldn't even have to write all the code to
provide the necessary functionality -- just replace the functions you
want to change.) However, this would require you to reverse-engineer a
lot of Microsoft code, since there are no neat documented hooks that get
called to draw the borders, etc. If you just want to intercept mouse and
keystrokes to provide additional functionality, I think there are
documented ways of capturing all input before it gets to applications.

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