Palette Decorations

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Richard.

I should have mentioned that I'm seeing this in LC 6.6.5 - wasn't the
change to Cocoa in 6.7?  The Finder example I gave was in OSX 10.10

Pete
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > I am under the impression that a palette stack on OSX should only
> > have a close button as a decoration and should not be resizable.
> > For example, if I bring up the Finder View Options window for a
> > folder, that's the way it displays.
> >
> > However, if I set the style of an LC stack to palette, or open it with
> > either the palette command or go... as palette, the decorations
> > include a close button, a greyed out minimize button and a maximize
> > button, and the stack is resizable.
>
> This was explored a while back and closed as "Not Fixable" given Mark
> Waddingham's understanding of the Cocoa APIs:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12274>
>
> Either his understanding is incorrect, or Apple is using an unpublished
> API for their Finder.
>
> If you can dig up the API call to get rid of those unused icons please
> post it to the report and they'll reopen it.
>
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