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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: input Focus?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 18:17:46 GMT
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In article <0am0Sna00Uh74160lC@andrew.cmu.edu>, cw1z+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Cushing Courtney Whitney) writes:
> Does anyone out there know if there is an init that would change
> the input focus on the mac from explicit (having to click on a
> window to make it active) to implicit (just having to place the
> cursor over the window to make it active).......

I'm not sure if this would work very well, since the Mac tactic is ususally
to bring the "focussed on" window to the front. 2 possibilities for
implementing such an init:

o it would have to patch the system so _all_ applications would
  focus on a window without bringing it to the front (sounds like close
  to impossible - correct me if I'm wrong)
o or every time you moved the cursor, you would risk having a different
  window jump to the front.

Summary: learn to like focus on click, or switch to a different OS.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu