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johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean) writes:

>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?

  John,

  Lots of thought.  First off, there are lots of programs that people
will (reasonably) expect to run from such an environment.  The ones
I'm referring to, like modZap, soniqTracker, Finder, synthLab, Platinum
Paint, and many other, all write directly to the screen.  This is a big
problem and it's highly unlikely anyone will ever change these apps
to not write directly to the screen.

  Other than that, what you noted above is just a few of the things
that Switch-It! does to make its application switching environment
work for most programs.

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