Re: How to do system-wide floating window?

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From: Peter K. Sheerin
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 23:51

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alcmist@well.sf.ca.us (Frederick Wamsley) writes:

> 
> You know how, in Write, the Find dialog floats on top of the document but
> allows the parent to maintain the focus?  In other words you can type
> text into a document underneath the Find dialog.
> 
>                                                              .... It's
> easy to keep it on the top, but all three of the obvious API's for 
> putting a window at the top of the Z order also activate it and give
> it the focus.
> 
> Has anyone actually done this?  If so, how?

Well, I know it's possible, as I have at least one of those free memory
display programs that acomplishes that. The file was mem111.zip, or something
like that.

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Subject: Re: How to do system-wide floating window?
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