On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:22 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:23:25PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Eliot Miranda <
> eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >    occasionally I find it useful to have a window that is always
> present in the current project, so that wen I change projects the window
> either moves to the new project, or is in all worlds.  Is there a way of
> doing this in the standard system?  (I can't see this from reading the
> labyrinthine project enter code, but I could be missing something ;-) ).
> Anyone have a changeset to do the same?
> >
> > Wow, I remember using this all the time back in the Old Days. I think
> you wrote the code for MVC to do it. Or maybe it was me after talking with
> you about it? Dunno.  IIRC it wasn?t at all hard in MVC-land but after
> looking at how this sort of thing is done in Ankh-Morph-pork I?m not sure
> it?s intelligible to mere humans.
> >
>
> Interesting question. Karl's suggestion of using a shared flap is probably
> the quickest expedient. But more generally:
>
> MorphicProject and MVCProject would need to handle this differently as
> would
> (the regrettably yet to be implemented) SeasideProject, AidaProject, and
> CuisMorphic3Project. So the concept would make sense within a given species
> of Project.


Maybe an alternative would be to actually make use of the native windows
support (finally?) to handle this.  I think I remember that one of the
prototypes was to have one of the native windows be its own project - so
you could with the primary window around like mad between project (event
including a Tweak project, say), while this other window just stays open.

As I understand it, this isn't done yet, and I probably wouldn't be able to
do it, but sounds like an actually useful use for the native window concept
- a window that sticks around when you switch projects.

-cbc
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