Simulating 'drawer' behaviour on Windows

[Ben Rubinstein]

Scott Rossi <scott at ...> writes:

> Maybe something like this could help (enter in msg box):
> 
>   go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/slider.rev"

Hi Scott,

I found this in archives, and checked it out (indeed I namechecked you in my
Bugzilla entry).  This solution looks great; however it requires the main window
to be a palette (not workable for me) and in what I guess is a related issue, as
soon as you have additional 'normal' windows, you get crazy layering issues,
where  the third window comes between the (palette) main window and its drawer.

I played around with something based on ideas stolen from your sample - but
couldn't get anything satisfactory.  Hence my conclusion that there were limits
to what we could achieve in Transcript, so we need support at the engine level.

(Xavier - I hadn't seen your palettes before - they look great! -  but I think
they suffer in a similar way.)

I would like to add these drawers to main document windows; they need to operate
in the normal layer, not disappear when the app is in the background - and
definitely not interleave.
 
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