Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:13736 comp.windows.misc:231 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc Message-ID: <4035@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 9 Mar 88 11:52:55 GMT References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <3996@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <7523@apple.Apple.Com> <4015@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <7598@apple.Apple.Com> Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 23 In article <7598@apple.Apple.Com> dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) writes: | The mac "simplfies" things for the user by denoting one |application, the "current" application. It is the only application |which can receive input from the user. This is an extension of |the idea that only the current window receives user input. This raises an interesting point. One of the events SunView can trap is the mouse entering and exiting the window. One use is to change the mouse cursor while in one window. (One program we have called fig, tracks the mouse and provides horizontal and vertical arrows on the top and left grid.) Now what happens when several applications are open, and the mouse is moved through each of the windows? Is the application with the mouse over it active, or the application on top? If it is the application on top, then lower applications wouldn't receive the events of the mouse passing through the window. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett