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From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder Problem
Message-ID: <420@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Jan 89 12:43:25 GMT
References: <1459@ditsyda.oz> <46100264@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <46100264@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>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.

That's all right as far as it goes, the problem with zoom boxes is that
the Finder doesnt handle them uniformly. An application should handle
clicks in inactive windows identically, whether the window is inactive
because another of the application's own windows is in front, or
another application is in front. The Finder handles clicks on close
boxes that way:  if you cant see the close box, clicking just brings
the window to the front, doesnt close it. If a Finder window is behind
another Finder window, you cant see its zoom box, and clicking where
the zoom box is just activates the window. But if the Finder is in the
background and you click in the invisible zoom box of its inactive
front window, it zooms.

Not consistent.  Not wysiwyg.  Not Mac!
(And not all that important, just irritating, I hope it gets fixed.)

-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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