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From: leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Window topper (for lack of a better name)
Message-ID: <895@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 2 Oct 90 12:10:42 GMT
References: <1990Sep29.015829.520@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E Eindhoven
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In article <1990Sep29.015829.520@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
|Anyone know of a AUTO folder program that moves the window under the
|mouse pointer to the top?  There's a function called AUTONEWTOP, or
|something like it, in a disk catalogger called STDCAT40.  When you
|move the mouse, the window under it comes to the top.  Thanks.
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This seems rather surprising behaviour; it would annoy me as a user.
The Suntools solution seems nicer: a key is reserved that tops each
window consecutively; alternatively you can click on a window's border
to expose that particular window to the top. Clicking on a window will
make it current (but no top it). This can easily be put into a program,
or even hacked into the mouse driver (making it more generic). The
unability of GEM to work with other windows than the top one, or to top
hidden windows is rather a drawback.

    Leo.