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From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  ICCCM question on InputFocus
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Date: 19 Dec 90 17:06:19 GMT
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In article <9012190749.AA03861@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes:
> > I have an application with multiple documents, and I need some way of
> > determining which document is "current".  Users make documents
> > current by clicking on them on the Mac.  The X equivalent seems to be
> > FocusIn events,
> 
> Depending on precisely what you want, the equivalent is either
> ButtonPress or FocusIn.  If you want to choose among multiple top-level
> windows, I would recommend FocusIn.
> 

I don't think that that's sufficient. Epoch faces this problem also,
and in order for things to work (mostly) right, it is necessary to
track both focus events and window transition events.

I think that this is a serious problem that is simply not addressed
under the current X windows conventions.

-- 
Alan M. Carroll                "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy.
Epoch Development Team          I'll get a saw."
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll