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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder Problem
Message-ID: <46100264@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 89 17:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Jan 25 11:38:00 1989


vincent@ditsyda.oz(David Vincent) writes in comp.sys.mac

>There's a minor but irritating bug in MultiFinder (or is it in Finder?).  
>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.
>
	This is NOT a bug but a feature.  With the latest MultiFinder came a
new bit in the SIZE resource called 'getBackgroundClicks'.  If an application
has this bit set, then it only takes one click to bring that application to
the front and in the process continue to handle the event (rather than one to
switch layers and a second to do the action).  The Finder does this so that 
you can quickly launch an application from another application (if that makes
any sense ??).  We have also implemented this 'feature' in the new MicroPhone II
so that our Icons can be quickly activated from the foreground.

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