Carbon backdrop plea for help

[Yennie at aol.com]

Hi,

This may not be what you are looking for, but it is possible to maintain your 
own backdrop window without much trouble. Create a blank stack, set its 
backColor and/or backPattern, and set its rect to the screenRect. Pop in a 
script that sends it to the back on resumeStack. If that's not enough, add an 
idle handler which queries the windows() property- I believe these appear in 
layered order. You could thus detect if the backdrop stack is no longer 
frontmost.

HTH,
Brian