Can I draw a line (or better any polygon) directly on screen?

[Richard Gaskin]

Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 02:30 AM, Joël Guillod wrote:
> 
>> Is there a easy way to draw any line on screen?
> 
> Maybe you can draw a line in separate stack and use windowShape.
> 
> Alternatives to the line might be color matching, flashing, a tiny
> window that runs back and forth between the two, and putting the two
> windows as groups on the same large stack.

As long as an externals-based solution like the one you've been using is
undesirable, maybe another option is to rethink the design.

With the interleaved window layering in OS X now making the Mac platform
behave like all others in this regard, it opens up window management
questions that affect all multi-window application designs.

One common solution is to migrate multi-window designs to multiple panes
(groups) within a single window.  This works well for Outlook, iMovie, and
many others.

While this level of deep rethinking is indeed non-trivial, I suspect as
application designers become more intimately familiar with the ramifications
of multi-window UIs in an interleaving OS we'll see more, and eventually
most, moving in this direction.

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