I'm trying to get more Mac-specific hooks in my applications, so I've 
been diving into the MacWindowStyle flags 
(tk::unsupported::MacWindowStyle). It appears that I can get windows to 
draw in most of the styles, but wiring them up into my applications is 
proving very difficult. I can get windows to draw as drawers, sheets, 
and so on, but because they are all toplevel, there is no way to get 
them properly aligned.

For instance: using the "sheet" style draws a window that looks like a 
sheet, with no window title or other border, but the style defaults to 
+0+0 screen position. I've done some hacks to get it sort-of-centered 
over the main toplevel, but it grabs focus and doesn't really look like 
a proper sheet.

The "drawer" window works in a similar fashion. I get a "drawer" window 
drawn, but it hangs out by itself away from the main window, and I 
haven't even been able to get it aligned with the main toplevel.

Another issue: I can get windows styled with such flags as 
"toolbarButton" (which is supposed to toggle the visibility of a Mac 
toolbar) and "unifiedTitleAndToolbar," which is supposed to draw a 
"unified-style" toplevel window (like you see in Mail.app), but neither 
really works--the windows are set up correctly, but there does not 
appear to be a way to a) get a real Mac toolbar in the toplevel (I don't 
believe there's any C-level binding to the HIToolbar API in Carbon) or 
b) bind these decorations to a simulated toolbar, i.e. a row of labels 
or buttons embedded in a frame.

Does anyone have any advice on getting these window styles to work, or 
am I better off ignoring them?

--Kevin

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com

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