On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 05:07  AM, Robert Purves wrote:

>  Robert Covington wrote:
>
>> The  problem that brought this episode up is that I have 3 
>> dropper/color pickers for my levels window , such would be familiar 
>> to Photoshop users.
>> I can't use a Movable modal as I'd prefer because using those 
>> droppers create  modal  beeps.
>> A floater works of course, but looks out of place for a filter dialog 
>> with that thin titled, harsh edged drag bar.
>> I thought of using a toolbar window because it's just right as far as 
>> layering, but couldn't get that to work as one might think.
>
>
> You can control the modality and activation scope, so as to change the 
> behaviour of a window class whose look is right but whose feel is 
> wrong for your needs.
> Here a _kMovableModalWindowClass is made non-modal.

Holy camoly.

Thanks Kazillions. Mega helpful. Nor more ghosted buttons or drag 
hacks, or needless beeps.

rc

>
>
> '~'A
> '                       Runtime : Rntm Appearance.Incl
> '                           CPU : Carbon
> '~'B
>
> #define WindowActivationScope as UInt32
>
> // always active if visible
> _kWindowActivationScopeIndependent = 1
>
>
> toolbox fn SetWindowActivationScope( WindowRef inWindow, ¬
>    WindowActivationScope inScope ) = OSStatus
>
>
> dim as OSStatus     err
> dim as WindowRef  @ w
>
> window 1, "Doc"
> appearance window 2, "Float", (90, 50)-(200, 120),¬
>     _kFloatingWindowClass
>
> appearance window 3, "Movable NonModal", (220, 70)-(430, 120),¬
>     _kMovableModalWindowClass
> get window 3, w
> // make it non-modal
> err = fn SetWindowModality( w, _kWindowModalityNone, 0 )
> // make it look active always
> err = fn SetWindowActivationScope( w, 
> _kWindowActivationScopeIndependent )
>
> do
> HandleEvents
> until 0
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert P.
>
> --
>