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From: anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click
Summary: very very wrong
Keywords: point-and-click, point-to-focus
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.012448.26476@verity.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 01:24:48 GMT
References: <5635@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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Reply-To: anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren)
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In-Reply-To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)

In article <5635@helios.TAMU.EDU>, daugher@cs (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
>When NeXT first came out with point-and-click to focus (i.e., to make a
>window come to the front and become the key window requires you to move the
>cursor onto the window and press the mouse button), there was a lot of 
>screaming and gnashing of teeth from Sun and Mac users, who were used to
>just pointing at a window and banging on the keys.

I don't know about you, but this Mac user has been using
point-and-click to focus since System 1.0...

>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.

We are you getting this info - it's just plain wrong...the Mac
interface has always been click-to-focus.

anders