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Article #39687Automatic window activation - pros & cons?
From: Graham Thomas
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 12:47
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 12:47
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The disk cataloguing program STDCAT has a feature which I quite like - I wonder if it's worth implementing more generally. It's called 'auto newtop' in the menu bar, and when it's activated the window under the mouse pointer automatically becomes the 'active' window. What do you think? Would this be a desirable feature to have in the desktop (or in an alternative like NeoDesk)? Clearly there would be some overhead in display update time, and there may be problems with overlapping windows if your mouse pointer strayed into an unwanted overlapping window on the way to the one you want. But would it be worthwhile to implement (as a user-selectable option, of course)? Would any existing programs break if 'auto newtop' were installed on the desktop? Would it be a nightmare to write in a way that would cope with every contingency (unlike in STDCAT, where it's in a single program environment)? Sorry - I'm not volunteering to try to write this. I'm just interested to see if anyone else thinks it would be worth doing. Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma EARN/BITNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk ARPA: grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: grahamt@syma.uucp Phone: +44 273 686758
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Automatic window activation - pros & cons? Message-ID: <1919@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 18 Dec 89 12:47:53 GMT Reply-To: grahamt@syma.UUCP (Graham Thomas) Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK Lines: 27