Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!actnyc!rmf
From: rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Odd Finder bug...
Message-ID: <824@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 14:52:05 GMT
References: <8WKQ4ZI1DU-0QO008d@andrew.cmu.edu> <1415@daimi.UUCP> <469@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <278@soleil.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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Summary: Bad applications give Finder problems w/ double-clicks...

In article <278@soleil.UUCP> grina@soleil.UUCP (Pete Grina) writes:
>In article <469@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>, tom@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Tom Wuthrich) writes:
>>     [...] the current system software will not let the 
>>     mouse do a double click anymore...
>
>When this happens, I just restart the MAC.
>
In the editorial section of the April 1988 issue of MacTutor, the problem is
described as being caused by applications that improperly mask out (disable
the reporting of) mouseUp events.  (Apparently, the Finder needs these events
to detect double-clicks.)  When the program exits, the Finder does not
reset the event mask, and so never sees the mouseUps...
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