Window Shape/Style

[Simon Lord]

I'm in OS X, I'll have to boot OS 9 up - crap.... :^)



On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 07:48 PM, Terry Judd wrote:

>> Has anyone tried "set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 
>> 16" to get rounded corners on their stack?  Does it really 
>> work?  I'm at my wits end, I manually entered close to a 
>> thousand numbers and none came close to rounded corners.  In 
>> fact most simply made my stack disappear.
>>
>> MAC OS X only.
>>
>
> Did you try snaffling the WDEF out of iTunes with ResEdit and 
> using that?
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
>>
>>> At 6:14 PM -0800 1/11/2002, Simon Lord wrote:
>>>> Not getting much of a responce so I'll rephrase the question.
>>>> Who here can tell me how I can create a stack that uses a custom
>>>> shape?
>>>>
>>>> I need some sort of external to change the shape right?  I'd
>>>> like to be a client of the person that can sell me the solution.
>>>
>>> All you need actually is a WDEF resource, not an external. A 
>>> WDEF resource
>>> is installed in the system file or in your app or stack - 
>>> somewhere in the
>>> resource path. You may need someone to write for you a custom 
>>> WDEF, but
>>> there are several available in the system file, and more 
>>> floating around
>>> the web. (Someone made an apple-shaped WDEF a few years ago 
>>> for MacHack,
>>> for instance.)
>>>
>>> Once you've got a suitable WDEF, you can use the decorations 
>>> property to
>>> set a stack to use that WDEF. Try these (using WDEFs available in the
>>> system file):
>>>
>>>   set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 2 -- plain box
>>>   set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 16 -- window with 
>>> rounded corners
>>>   set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 1993 -- palette 
>>> with title bar
>>> at left side
>>>
>>> (Of course, the above applies only to Macs.)
>>>
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