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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  DMouse
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Date: 3 Oct 88 23:05:47 GMT
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In article <8809300637.AA26420@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>:Couldn't the problem be solved by making DMouse only set focus when the
>:mouse moves into a window?
>	Nope.  The problem is that the window under the mouse can change
>without moving the mouse ... for example, a new window is openned, or the
>user selects the window-to-back icon.

That's just the point.  A window popping up under the mouse wouldn't
necessarily get focus.  A window would only get focus when the mouse
moves INTO it.  And conversely, a window would only loose focus when
the mouse moves into another window, or the focus is changed under
program control.

As I see it, if a window that should be given focus pops up NOT under
the mouse, you have two choices:

	a)  move the window or mouse so that the window is under the
	    mouse, or
	b)  allow the window to have focus even though it isn't under
	    the mouse.

I'm suggesting b.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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