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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new 'feature' for 1.3
Message-ID: <6192@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 22:39:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.6192
Posted: Thu Jun 25 22:39:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 04:29:22 EDT
References: <8706241834.AA13064@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <8706241834.AA13064@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
}
}How about this for 1.3:
}
}	If a window gets closed and it is the active window, then the new
}active window must be picked from the remaining windows on the screen.  Why
}don't you pick the one under the mouse??
}
}	It would be utterly trivial to write a program to handle this...
}simply catch CloseWindow(), do the CloseWindow(), then push a mouse click
}into the input event stream.

Not intending to specifically pick on you Matt, but puhleeze don't add
anything to the OS that starts sending false mouse clicks down the input
streams!!  It's one thing if people want to torture themselves by running
daemons that send these clicks and double clicks around but don't force
me to deal with unwanted gadget activations, etc. that are caused by
unintentional mouse clicks.

For you guys simply running CLIs, these click daemons are fine but, watch
out!  Don't leave your mouse sitting in a window pointing at a gadget or
scrollbar when you activate one of these things!

And, by the way, to some programs (such as The Microfiche Filer) double-clicks
are meaningful and if you run one of these double-click-eaters you cannot
effectively use the program!

This is not to say that these programs are not useful to some people, but
it would be a grave mistake to add something like this to the OS.

	Thank you.
	Gary