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Time to look at the mysterious 'borderView' object, used by the Cocoa libraries to render a window to the screen. Although you'll not often need the specialised facilities provided by the border view, they can be very useful when creating certain kinds of application. Here's a little experiment you can try. In xCode, create a …

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  1. Peter Mc Aulay
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    Grrr

    Death to developers who don't allow window resizing or closing!

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  2. Jamie Kitson

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    My thoughts exactly!

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  3. Colin Millar
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    Re: Grr

    Death is too good for them.

    They should be sat in front of a screen in a locked, slowly flooding room with the instructions on how to get out of the room in a non-resizable window with the key part of the instructions just below the bottom of the page.

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  4. Dave Jewell

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    But, but, but.....you've got to agree that *some* windows don't ever need to be resizable. Personally, I think it's a good thing that the underlying system offers this flexibility: look at the various preferences pages in (e.g.) Apple's Mail application: some are resizable, some ain't.

    Remember: we're not talking specifically about an app's main window.

    Dave

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