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I've been thinking about writing this post for a loooong time, but I've felt that the idea was a bit too far-fetched, and that it would put the biggest effort on someone other than myself, so I've decided to focus on other projects this far. But since @Crutch opened the door for it to perhaps...

Oh, you're thinking about a different part of Exposé than I am! I was a bit puzzled when you began mentioning previews, but now I understand why :) I've only been thinking about the part that reveals the desktop, since that's the one I use by far the most, and also since I felt the "reveal all...

Wow, thanks for getting started with this! :) I've taken a break from my own programming efforts for a couple of months after getting my control strip modules to work, which was one of my primary goals, but this thread is very interesting to read. Impressive how much you were able to find out...

I should have checked eBay too :)   Tada: Focus Enhancements M2895LL/A Apple Presentation System 15-Pin DB15 RCA S-Video https://www.ebay.com/itm/Focus-Enhancements-M2895LL-A-Apple-Presentation-System-15-Pin-DB15-RCA-S-Video/153412482196?epid=218483773&hash=item23b818b494:g:c5kAAOSwNTVfbnsO

I have no idea, but yes, it does look like some sort of video card. Looks like two display connectors, an s-video connector, a composite video connector and a power connector. Felt like searching the web a bit, and the nearest clue I could find was this page...

I'm using Think C 5.0 on a PowerBook 170 (with a 68882 FPU). I've never touched the compiler settings, but FPU instructions are turned off. Turning them on however doesn't affect the results.

Just a simple C (Think C) question here. Can anyone explain why these two methods give different results? I have a decent understanding of how floating point numbers work in binary (5.67999…) and the problem with rounding during assignments, but I'm surprised that these two methods give...

I trust you  :-) Thanks for clearing that up. I found it while searching online. Apparently it's in an earlier version of Inside Macintosh, dated 1982–1984. Now that I check it, it's not in the 1985 version that I have saved on my computer. So probably a good idea that got scrapped :)

Another small update! Sliders are apparently not called sliders, but dials in Apple's documentation. Inside Macintosh mentions them in the following passages (of which the second seems to contradict the first…) (my highlighting):  

Small update regarding tool windows! After making a search for “WDEF” on Apple’s Developer Connection CD’s, I discovered a folder named “Floating Windows”, containing code for making windows float, as well as the third party software “Infinity Windoid WDEF” for implementing tool/palette windows...

Ah, I didn't see your reply until after my post above. That sounds like a good solution for now. I'll see if I can figure out how to code it. Thanks for the information about the buttons. I'll put CDEFs on my growing list of things to read up on! :)

After a couple of hours of searching and skimming through various resources online, I’ve come to realize that writing a custom WDEF probably would be just as difficult, if not more, than going through and rewriting the code. Programming on classic Mac OS sure requires a ton of patience...! Just...

Many thanks for the links! The tool window article look very thorough. Seems like I've got some more reading to do :) I'll see if I can find some information about implementing sliders on Mactech or elsewhere as well. Regarding the calendar module, the thing is that in this particular case I...

Thanks for the reply! Sorry for the late response on my part. I didn't assume that menus are windows. However, the popup menu in the calendar module is implemented as a window, and I just thought it would make sense if the altDBoxProc (plain box with shadow) had the same type of shadow as all...

Just a quick side question here :) (main post above) As a side project, I just started making some modifications to the MacCalendar calendar module that comes with the Control Strip development kit, to make it more visually pleasing (have been using it for many years but don't really like how...

No problem! We all help each other voluntarily here so I'm thankful for any response I get. I'm constantly surprised by all the great feedback. When I doubt that I will get any response at all, I get great replies like this. (There is however another open question that I would be happy to get a...

(Part 2 of the post above) A second issue that I encountered (and was able to work around) while developing the module is the following: When I moved over to work the voltage module, a need to deal with floating point numbers emerged. My first idea was to use the standard C functions. However...

After the lack of success with fixing the slider back in May (@Crutch, or anyone else: if you have any ideas about my post above, feel free to comment), I went back to the less elegant but slightly more functional popup menu instead. I then moved on to develop a second control strip module that...

Naturally! Getting bug fixes for a 26 year old app is not something I had expected even here so I'm more than happy to! As an aside, I had planned to sit down on the top of our bed to relax and go through a bunch of old (physical) documents and search for related digital ones on old backups on...

All right, the combined version is up now! My first guess would be that it's looking for the creator code. Out of curiosity, I tried changing it to something else and rebuild the desktop file, but the system still finds it. Just changing the file name also doesn't fool it. However, if both the...