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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Suggestion for new 'feature' for 1.3
Message-ID: <3409@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 02:32:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3409
Posted: Sat Jun 27 02:32:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jun-87 00:44:48 EDT
References: <8706260624.AA20450@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Hole Earth 'Lectronic Loss (or words to that effect)
Lines: 40
Keywords: Chaos!
Summary: Oh, *please* lets standardize.

In article <8706260624.AA20450@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>In article <6192@eddie.MIT.EDU> Gary Samad typed:
>}In article <cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>}} How about this for V1.3: [...]
>}} [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.
>}}
>} [puhleeze] don't add anything to the OS that starts sending false mouse
>} clicks down the input streams!!
>
>You are correct, dumping click events into the input stream is a nasty thing
>to do.  What is needed is a way to say to Intuition, 
>ActiveateWindowUnderPointer() or, better, WhichWindowIsUnderThePointer()

	It's easy.  First, find out the screen coordinates of the mouse
pointer (trivial).  Then, call the layers.library function WhichLayer().
This will return a pointer to the layer that the specified X,Y coordinates
are inside.  Then, search through the linked list of windows and find the
one with the same layer address.

>While on the subject of needed Intuition tricks, how about RethinkWindow().
>It would rethink a window, primarily the size and position, in one atomic
>step.
>
	Yes, please.  Another vote for this one, too.  Note that it is an
addition to the layers.library, not Intuition.

>The Amiga is amazingly tollerant and forgiving as to the amount of stuff
>you may muck with externally before something breaks. 
>
	Hmmm.  I don't know.  I think the system would get *terribly*
annoyed if you had Robotroff, Ping, AutoPoint, and Facc I all running at the
same time.  :-) :-) :-)

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