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From: alexr@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
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Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:32:50 GMT
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In article <5635@helios.TAMU.EDU> daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. 
Daugherity) writes:
> Now Apple has announced that version 7.0 of the Mac operating system, due
> out later this year, will switch to point-and-click to focus.
> 
> So Steve is still helping design Apples! :-)

I think that you've confused two issues.

a) As others have pointed out, the Mac has always allowed you to click in 
a window to switch to it.

b) Some dialogs in System 7.0 permit typing to select items in a list. 
Some dialogs have more than one list, or a text field that also need to be 
typed into. Apple uses a "focus" rectangle to indicate which list/text 
field receives the keystrokes. Text Fields have their text highlighted or 
an insertion point put in them when they are active, and lists have a thin 
black border added around them. Examples of this behavior are Chooser and 
SFPutFile. (Several other windows have focus as well.)


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