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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: how to handle a mouseDown in another program's windows?
Keywords: mouse down
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Date: 29 Nov 90 08:12:33 GMT
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Well with some help I figured out why I couldn't get my Mac to switch to
another application through mouseDown-ing in that applications window while
my application is frontmost.

"Currently, MultiFinder will not suspend your application when the frontmost
window is a modal dialog box with a window of type dBoxProc ..."
(Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder, (c) 1988, Apple; p. 3-11)

(The dBoxProc window is the standard double-lined dialog window.)

I found that using a modeless dialog box of type dBoxProc also (though after
re-reading the stuff about modeless dialogs in IM I, I think I'm using it
contrary to standard Apple guidelines -- OH NO! :-) ).

Thanks to all who responded, especially Steve Dorner at UIUC for pointing
out the dBoxProc stuff, and to Phil Shapiro at Symantec for pointing me to
the Programmer's Guide to MF.


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