[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Implementing floating windows

etsai@hstbme.mit.edu (Eugene C Tsai) (06/08/90)

I am trying to write a program that uses floating windows like those
that can be found on the "MacPaint-like" demonstration program in 
Think C. I have been racking my brains over the source code for that
program. Because I don't really have much experience with object
oriented programming, it doesn't make much sense to me. Does anyone
have sample code for implementing floating windows that uses non-object
oriented C with standard toolbox calls?
thanks
eugene tsai

anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren) (06/09/90)

Eugene,

What you want to do is get the April/May 1988 issue of MacTutor
magazine (if you can't find the actual issue, you can buy Volume 4 of
the book that they sell which contains all the articles for a given
year)

I recently asked MACDTS pretty much the same question, and that was
their answer to me.  The article has a sample application and WDEF
(and an MDEF that lets you tear off menus a la HyperCard) and explains
in depth how to manage floating windows.

If you don't want to type in the code, you can either buy a source
disk or let me know - I typed in the WDEF, but not the sample code
since I'm using MacApp.

anders