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Graham Thomas writes about an auto window topper for the desktop...

Graham,

I wrote such a desk accessory over a year ago, and I found several problems
when using this at the desktop and in programs.

Of course I do know more about the machine now, but these are what I found back
then:

At the desktop:

The window would come to the top, but the OS wouldn't change the directory pat
so you had 'weirdness' do to that.

Any program previously selected in the active window became deselected when the
new window was automatically topped.  Therefore, you couldn't copy very
effectively, or do something like a 'show info' because the file would be
deselected before you got to where you were going...

I did sorta change it such that if you had the right mouse button down it
wouldn't auto-top, but whats the point?  That's more work...

In programs:

The window became topped, but unfortunately the bottom window was still the
active one (or so the program thought).

In a word proccessor, this is kinda funny, because your cursor and block
highlights are no where correct for the current window, but rather aligned
with the bottom window...

All in all, I thought it was a neat idea, but it turned out to be pretty
useless (at least back then).  Maybe if I get the chance, I'll look into it
again...

- mike

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