MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) (08/01/90)
The following will sureley be our shortest contribution concerning Smalltalk/V postings into this group. It allows windows to stay on the screen, until (and only until) you close it explictely through the close-icon or the topPane menu. Who is going to make the bell ring, when mousekey is pressed outside the window? "**************************** * 31 Jul 1990 12:30:56 * * Project: ConcreteTopPane * If you do not use Max Ott's (marvellous) Category and ProjectBrowser you should install the next method first: "! !Behavior methods! methodsInCategory: aCategory "Answer an instance of ClassReader initialized for the receiver. !!! max ^ClassReader forClass: self !! TopPane subclass: #ConcreteTopPane instanceVariableNames: '' classVariableNames: '' poolDictionaries: '' ! !ConcreteTopPane methodsInCategory: 'etc'! hasCursor "Autor: Th. Muhr, Datum: Feb 18, 1990 Kommentar: TopPane can not (accidently) be deactivated by clicking outside the window. Our preferred method for displaying information (help-windows, etc.)" super hasCursor. ^true! ! Thomas Muhr, Technical University of Berlin, BITNET: muhrth@db0tui11 Project ATLAS - Computer Based Tools for Qualitative Research "Computers, like every technology, are a vehicle for the transformation of tradition." (WINOGRAD/FLORES)