Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 90 22:03:58 GMT References: <5635@helios.TAMU.EDU> <28980007@acf4.NYU.EDU> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 24 In-reply-to: russell@acf4.NYU.EDU's message of 6 Jun 90 01:16:00 GMT In article <28980007@acf4.NYU.EDU> russell@acf4.NYU.EDU (Bill Russell) writes: >What are you talking about. Clicking on a window on any Macintosh from day >1 brings that window to the front. Input now goes to that window. > >Sun and the X window folks use the other methods. Both SunView (I guess that's what you mean by Sun?) and X can have it either way. Your choice. >I take the Macintosh method. If the Title bar has "bars" that is where >my input goes. I like to use the point-with-the-mouse method, combined with visual highlighting of the window that currently takes input ("bars" in the title-bar or whatever). There are times where I like to force the input to stay with a specific window no matter where I move the mouse. Happily, X lets me do that with a single mouse-click. To each his own. That's (part of) the beauty of X. /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | NeXT: A disaster looking for a place CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | to happen -- Bill Joy