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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: how to handle a mouseDown in another program's windows?
Keywords: mouse down
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.105828.1396@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 10:58:28 GMT
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I am writing a program (Think C 4.0) that in one part uses a modeless dialog.

    while (not_done)
      { WaitNextEvent( ... );
	if (it_is_a_dialog_event)
	    do_dialog_stuff();
	else
	  { if (it_is_a_mouseDown)
	    thePart = FindWindow( ... );
	      { if (thePart==inMenuBar)
		    do_menu_stuff();
		else if (thePart==inSysWindow)
		    SystemClick( ... );
		/* here */
	       }
	   }
       }

What is not working the way I want it to is changing to another program
(under MultiFinder, of course) by clicking on another program's window.
Do I need to put something else where I marked "/* here */" in the code?
Perhaps checking if (mouseDown_inDesk)?

Thanks for the help.


Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student        \ Internet:  johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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