Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Roots II (the window saga continues) Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 89 00:06:48 GMT References: <8902171326.AA00249@decwrl.dec.com>, <10781@well.UUCP> Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: <10781@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: > In previous articles, people have been kvetching about the voodoo > involved in discovering which Window gets reactivated when a Window is > closed. > > Suggestion/Proposal: When a Window is closed, the Window that is > underneath the mouse pointer, wherever that is, gets activated. I don't think that's a good idea; the window under the mouse when a window get closed is usually pretty random (since usually, the user moves the mouse to close the window). I think a stack order is better-- the previous window activated gets selected when a window gets closed. -Miles