Inside Macintosh: Programmer's Guide to MacApp / Part 2 - Working With MacApp

Chapter 18 -
Working With Windows

This chapter describes MacApp's support for creating and using windows in your application. It also includes recipes and sample code that demonstrate how to

• create a window from a 'View' resource
• define and use a floating window

For additional information on windows and views, see Chapter 8, "Displaying, Manipulating, and Printing Data," and Chapter 17, "Working With Views."

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Chapter Contents

Overview

Floating Windows

Using Window Manager Routines

Defining a Window With a 'View' Resource

Creating Windows

Recipes--Windows

Recipe--Creating a Window From a View Resource

Define a Resource ID Constant for the 'View' Resource

Define the 'View' Resource for the Window

Create a Window From the 'View' Resource

Recipe--Defining and Using a Floating Window

Include MacApp's FloatWindow.r File Into Your Resource File

Call the InitUFloatWindow Initialization Method

Base Your Floating Windows on the TFloatWindow Class

Define a Resource ID for the 'View' Resource

Use the 'fwnd' Resource Type to Define a Floating Window Resource

Call NewTemplateWindow to Create a Floating Window