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Chapter 4 - Window Manager / Window Manager Reference

Window Manager Routines / Displaying Windows

HiliteWindow

Use the HiliteWindow procedure to set a window's highlighting status.

PROCEDURE HiliteWindow (theWindow: WindowPtr; fHilite: Boolean);

theWindow

A pointer to the window's window record.

fHilite

A Boolean value that determines the highlighting status: TRUE highlights a window; FALSE removes highlighting.

DESCRIPTION

The HiliteWindow procedure sets a window's highlighting status to the specified state. If the value of the fHilite parameter is TRUE, HiliteWindow highlights the specified window; if the specified window is already highlighted, the procedure has no effect.
If the value of fHilite is FALSE, HiliteWindow removes highlighting from the specified window; if the window is not already highlighted, the procedure has no effect.

Your application doesn't normally need to call HiliteWindow. To make a window active, you can call SelectWindow, which handles highlighting for you.