Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!matrox!uvm-gen!kira!news From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NOT (click to type) in NeXTStep? Message-ID: <1990Nov14.210337.16130@uvm.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 21:03:37 GMT References: Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, Department of Computer Science Lines: 45 Raymond-Protection: enabled scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: ... (dots mark deletions) > But, I think that the Sun style would work. Proposal: > Click in a window makes that window the main/key window, and brings > it to the front - like it does now. > Move over a window and drop the mouse (for 200ms, or whatever) makes that > window the main/key window but leaves it where it is in the window > hierarchy (ie, covered if it is, or whatever). > Conceivably, have alt-click make a window main without bringing it forward, > just to be complete. ... > I'd envision this as a loadable package, much like the package distributed ... > Sorry to beat a dead horse, > Hit him again for me, please :-) All right, I will 8-). I don't have a NeXT, but if the gods are amenable, will someday. On my Atari ST (yes, I am getting the Mac emulator, much discussed here, gotta get more software 8-) there is an alternate shell (desktop) that allows something else that NeXT should provide. I'm surprised in fact, that this sort of thing isn't easily fixable in your much vaunted Objective C development environment. The feature is an extra button that sends its window to the back, behind all the other windows. It's very convenient, and I just wish that all ST (and Mac and NeXT) windows could do this, because window arrangement is then much less of a black art. I also like the idea expressed above, it would be nice on my xterm (I know, boo, hiss 8-) as well as on the Atari or a NeXT. Consider adding the window-to-the-back button to the window manager package you're thinking of making. Just my $0.02. Bob Pegram Internet: pegram@griffin.uvm.edu UUCP: ...uvm-gen!pegram