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From: "clusardi2k" <clusardi2k@1:261/38.remove-5qr-this>
Subject: Re: Light Box Effect (2 Windows, 1 Smaller And Active Above Inactive
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  To: markspace
From: clusardi2k@aol.com

On Friday, August 3, 2012 4:31:06 PM UTC-4, markspace wrote:
>>> Wrote:There's also a book call Swing Hacks which has
>>> some interesting ideas, including an animated window
>>> similar to what you are asking for. Still not exactly
>>> a lightbox however.

For a cost of $4.24, I'll definiately have the following book in about a week:

Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs(1st Edition) by Joshua Marinacci, 
Chris Adamson
Paperback, 546 Pages, Published 2005 by O'reilly Media ISBN-13: 
978-0-596-00907-6, ISBN: 0-596-00907-0

Funny, how something so rich in ideas can be so inexpensive.

So thanks for another shelf book, but I won't keep my fingers crossed on me 
building the best of the best in this case.

And, I don't think I'll ever be able to develop the animation totally on my 
own! My implementation would amount to being too slow, etc, etc, etc.

Anyway, what's wrong with just disabling a large window below a smaller enabled 
window?

(I'll probably try to just live with that.)

Does anyone have a project which hints of a light box effect. The code doesn't 
have to be a full blown light box effect.

Thanks,

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