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From: denn@violet.berkeley.edu (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MultiFinder Weirdness
Summary: Try using GetNextEvent!
Keywords: GNE, MF, DLOG
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Date: 2 Oct 88 03:37:57 GMT
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In article <1234600007@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> emb1354@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>What I've heard is that that is the expected behavior under MultiFinder.
>Windows are opened in back and are brought to front if Pointer(-1) was sent
>in the behind parameter of the GetNewWindow(), NewWindow(), GetNewDialog(),
>etc. call.  There really isn't anything you can do to correct it, just try
>to work around it.
>
	Eric is right that this is standard behaivor - however there are
work arounds.  The most commonly used one (and the one that Apple recommends)
is to just call GetNextEvent (don't worry about the return value!) after doing
the ShowWindow on your dialog.  This works just fine and maintains compat.

Leonard Rosenthol
LazerWare, inc.