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Dirty windows
Authored by: aranor on Feb 10, '02 02:08:46PM

This simply indicates that the window is "dirty", and is used to reflect save status. If the window has a proxy icon (an icon next to the title), that icon will be grayed out when the window is "dirty" as well. Under OS 9, the proxy icon would grey out when the window is "dirty", but under OS X we get the black dot in the close widget as well.



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Widget not OS X issue
Authored by: cyberzine on Feb 10, '02 04:55:03PM

Hey there,

As Ken Berenskin (OS X marketing manager) explained at a seminar at Macworld, this is not a OS X issue, but a Cocoa feature. Carbon apps do not nativly have this ability, though can be programmed to act this way. (Such is the case with Microsoft Office which is Carbon but acts much like Cocoa apps).

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Widget not OS X issue
Authored by: aranor on Feb 11, '02 10:00:44PM

It's a simple toolbox call that will set a window "dirty" under Carbon.



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