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1 total messages Started by Jim - Hickstein Tue, 29 Nov 1988 22:44

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Author: Jim - Hickstein
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1988 22:44

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First, I apologize for not posting this to comp.windows.ms: Portal doesn't
know about the new group, yet, and will not let me post to an arbitrary group.

Using OS/2 PMSDK 1.05, the control panel allows one to set something called
the "application background" color, as distinct from other kinds of background
colors.  So far, I have only seen PMFILE (File Manager) use this, and then only
because (I think) it has an "application" window with several sub-windows that
contain the actual stuff.  The application window itself contains only other
windows (perforce?).

My question is: How do I create a window that has this background color?  I
haven't seen anything about it in the system documents, nor in Petzold's
"Preview Edition" book (meaning it's only half done: no GPI stuff yet).  This
is not a big deal, but I would like to find out.  I assumed that, since PM
seems to be the "spiritual successor" to MS-Windows, you people might have seen
this before, and could tell me the answer, quickly and painlessly.

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com

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