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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder Problem
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Date: 24 Jan 89 22:01:53 GMT
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Summary:

In article <1459@ditsyda.oz> vincent@ditsyda.oz (David A. Vincent) writes:
>When an application other than the Finder is frontmost, the Finder can
>of course still have windows open, but they'll all be inactive.  At
>least they'll all *look* inactive, but won't be, because clicking on
>the (invisible) zoom box of the one which would have been frontmost
>will bring the Finder to the front, but also cause the window to zoom.

That thar ain't no bug, it's a feature!  Basically, clicking on a background
layer not only brings that layer to the front, but also acts just as if you
had clicked at that location with the layer active.  I think this is handy.
F'rexample, if you've got your WP in the background and you see a misspelled
word, just double-click on the word and retype.  Otherwise, you'd have to
click three times to get the same effect.  I see no reason to require the
third click.

>David A. Vincent          vacation student, CSIRO Division of IT
>ACSnet:     vincent@ditsyda.oz            Post:  GPO Box 1710-T
>Common sense is not all that common.        -- Bertrand Russell.

You said it.  :-)

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