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From: CB@frocky.dec.com (Christian Balzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Roots II (the window saga continues)
Message-ID: <8902171326.AA00249@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 17 Feb 89 13:26:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Oh well, in a world much brighter and better than this I'll hopefully
be able to give examples that are easily understood.

Fabbian Dufoe wrote:
>     Yep.  Don't do anything.  Intuition automatically activates the
>previously active window when you close one.  You can' get any easier than
>that, can you?

That's in fact easy and I knew that (really!:-), however Intuition will
NOT activate the previously active window, BUT the window the
application was started from, ie, the CLI it was RUN'ed from or the WB
backdrop window (this is also true when the original CLI is gone by the
time the application exits). 
And I wasn't talking about closing the window...

Peter da Silva won't let me activate other people's windows, but what
do I care what married folks tell me. :-)
And his hint won't work for my application, too.

So I'll re-phrase my question and give a real life example:

How can an iconified/hotkey application determine which window was
active before it was activated (NOT STARTED!) ?

Take a look at all the -X utilities by Steve Tibbet, NAG, etc.
Wouldn't it be nice if you did your thing with those applications and
when you're finished (for now), that they could activate your previously
active window after shrinking/iconifiecation(sp?)/dissolving?

As far as I can see it, there is currently no (OS supported) way to
do it, and that's why these programs don't support this user friendly
method. 

So my proposal for such a mechanism in 1.4 still stands...

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