Re: [MACTCL] Popup Boxes on MacTclTk

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 10:16 -0700 on 29/8/01, Jim Ingham wrote:

>We used the "kHelpWindowClass" - so we had to add a call to 
>unsupported1 with this class.  So that is roughly your solution, but 
>we can do it more nicely.

that's exactly what I tried, adding another case for the 
kHelpWindowClass to unsupported1

>What happens, if you pass this as the Class parameter you get an 
>error from CreateNewWindow?

yes, CreateNewWindow fails and Tk panics because it can't create the window

>  That seems wrong somehow, but I guess you are getting a different 
>version of CreateNewWindow from Carbon.  Sigh...  If this is true 
>then I guess there is not much we can do.

The CarbonLib Engineers are clearly able to implement this type of 
window, maybe it would be possible to imitate what they do? probably 
there are too many strings attached though to make this possible...

Cheers,

Daniel
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