Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!midas!herbw
From: herbw@midas.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MultiFinder switch bug with custom WDEFs
Message-ID: <2887@midas.TEK.COM>
Date: 5 May 88 00:02:29 GMT
References: <242@uvabick.UUCP> <8700@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: MultiFinder doesn't allow switching when it thinks it sees a dBoxProc
Summary: Why not just ALLOW a context switch EVEN when a modal dialog is in front?

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Perhaps someone could explain the rationale for PROHIBITING a context switch
when a modal dialog box is in front.  I find that it would sometimes be
convenient to switch to the finder (for example) when a sfGetFile dialog
is active, so I could examine (for example) file creation dates, sizes, etc.

It might be reasonable to require the application developer to take an
explicit action to ALLOW the context switch (such as providing an event
filter for the modal dialog).

Perhaps what I'm really suggesting is that modal dialogs are only modal
with respect to that application that displays them, but that they should
be MODELESS with respect to OTHER applications running under MultiFinder.

If the real problem is that Apple depends upon non-reentrant code (such
as Standard File) which uses modal dialogs, perhaps we should all be asking
when Apple will make this code reentrant.

Looking forward to some enlightenment...

                                      Herb Weiner
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