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From: hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: front/back gadget and WindowToFront
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.001605.3317@crash.cts.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 00:16:05 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA
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>>Is there a varibale that stores the front window for each screen           
>>that I can change back to the window value after I call window             
>>to front for the clock window.                                             
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>No.  The window list in the Screen structure determines the window          
>ordering, and it's read-only.  The best thing is to use shift-click         
>on the depth gadget, which forces a window to the back.  I would            
>like to add a fix to Intuition that would make non-frontmost                
>fully-exposed windows go to the back, instead of to the front,              
>when you click on their depth gadget.                                       
                                                                             
  I made a clock program under KS2.0 that brings itself to the front         
every 30 seconds.  However, if you happen to click and drag the mouse button 
on workbench just as the clock window brings itself to the front, the mouse  
freezes.  The same thing happens any time you press left mouse button then   
right mouse button to send a screen to the back. Is this a bug or feature :-)