Re: owner/owned zorder

>
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 16:42:07 +0200 "xnowfall" <[email protected]>
> writes:
> > litestep's main window isn't owned or parented to anything,
> > but modules like desktop2, label and layercuts are owned by
> > it.
>
> Is there any reason to do that?
>
> If having the windows owned by the litestep window causes the problem,
> why not just avoid setting the owner?
>

don't know if that's why it was originally added, but unowned topmost
windows with a caption show up in the taskmanager


> >  - the litestep window should possibly use something like
> > (((WINDOWPOS *)lParam)->flags |= SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE
> > | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOOWNERZORDER) for WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING.
> > this to let it protect the zorder itself in case some modules
> > don't follow the rules above
>
> The litestep window should probably be created with HWND_MESSAGE, which
> would avoid zorder all together (on systems where it's supported)
>

it couldn't then be the owner of labels/layercuts etc without them becomming
message windows too though, right?


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