Multiple Desktop Applications

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From: John MacLean
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:03

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Would it be possible to:

- Intercept all toolbox calls to desktop related toolsets
(eg: window manager, menu manager, quickdraw, qd aux, etc).

- Keep an array of main window handles, one for each application
(process-id) that is started.

- Re-direct all screen oriented calls to operate on the main window
of the appropriate application.

- In this way, have multiple applications running on the desktop under
GNO, with each application running in a scaleable window with a menu bar.

Has anyone given this (or something similar) some thought?
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