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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MultiFinder Weirdness
Message-ID: <18313@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 88 03:05:29 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <2449@spray.CalComp.COM> anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) writes:
>NCSA Telnet does this to me. When it starts up, it opens a window full of
>information, which goes away when I first click the mouse. It opens behind
>the windows opened by the Finder and other applications, and then comes

This was mentioned in Tech Note 180.  If the application has the
canBackground bit set, then the layer won't be made frontmost until
GetNextEvent/WaitNextEvent is called several times.

>ResEdit (v 1.1b3) does something similar. When I open a DLOG resource and
>double click to see the DITL info, I get a bizarre result. Windows behind

This is not the same problem.  ResEdit is doing something unusual that's not
MultiFinder compatible.  I think versions of ResEdit before 1.2 are known
not to be MultiFinder compatible.

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