[Alephmodular-devel] Re: [M-dev]Point of the backdrop_window?

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:34  AM, Mark Levin wrote:

>
> On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 08:27  PM, Br'fin wrote:
>
>> Does anyone happen to know what the point of the backdrop window 
>> under Macintosh is? I ask because it doesn't seem to do anything... 
>> not when the main window is normally stretched to fill the screen in 
>> the first place!
>
> It covers the entire monitor when the window is not stretched to fill 
> the screen, and it covers additional monitors when running on a system 
> with more than 1.
>
> --Mark
>

Ahhh, so it's kind of redundant when you have only one screen, (what 
with the main window being stretched to fill that screen) but is very 
useful for the case of multiple monitors. Ahhh. Gotcha.

Seems like there should be a less memory intensive way of fading out 
the other monitors, go figure.

-Jeremy Parsons