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From: ellis@cadillac.siemens.COM (Ellis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: More on warping the pointer for a reconfigured widget
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 09:47:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 09:47:43 1987
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Even if we agree that asynchronous actions by other clients should not disturb
the window which is the listener, there is still the matter of a window manager
reconfiguring a window based on a user input.

Because our window manager tiles, windows may be automatically shrunk when
the user resizes or opens another window.  Consequently, when a window
becomes the listener, it is optionally enlarged to its desired size (the size
to which the user last explicitly resized it).  This is a fairly important
feature of our system.  It is similar in spirit to overlapping window managers
that move a window to the top when it becomes the listener.

A window becomes the listener because the user initially clicks or types into some
widget.  When the window enlarges, that widget is likely to have been moved.
I believe that most users would prefer that the
pointer be warped back to that widget.

Ellis.Cohen@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu
Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager
105 College Rd East
Princeton NJ 08540
(609) 734-6524