Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!gatech!gtss!chas From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DMouse -R option (was Re: Finishing up YAIP...) Summary: The feature you employ is optional Message-ID: <251@gtss.UUCP> Date: 18 May 88 13:24:05 GMT References: <8805130348.AA00528@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <5332@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2528@tekred.TEK.COM> Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics Lines: 26 In article mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: ) )No. Since Dmouse makes the window that the pointer is on top of the )active window, you can type into a window behind the frontmost window )merely by placin the pointer on the window and typing without ever )clicking the mouse. So say half the people on the net. However, insane as it seems, some of us actually turn off the Activate-the-Window-under-the-Mouse Mode. I do it because I like to answer Requestors with Amiga-V or Amiga-B, and unless the mouse is where the Requestor is going to pop up, I have to move it there to answer the Requestor. I'm not where I can try this but I have a suggestion for the person who wanted to write in a window not the frontmost one (presuming that he has his Activate-the-Window Mode set like mine). Try clicking in the Window-to-Back gadget in the window you want to write in. I believe this will 1) cause DMouse to pull the window to the front and then 2) cause Intuition to activate the window and push it to the back. Of course if you have more than two windows this may still not do what you want unless you can move the irrelevant windows out of the way. -- - It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be - - coming up it. -- Henry Allen - Charles Cleveland Georgia Tech School of Physics Atlanta, GA 30332 UUCP: ...!gatech!gtss!chas INTERNET: chas@ss.physics.gatech.edu