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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Roots II (the window saga continues)
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Date: 21 Feb 89 23:56:59 GMT
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In article <10781@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Suggestion/Proposal:  When a Window is closed, the Window that is
>underneath the mouse pointer, wherever that is, gets activated.

Oh, no; please not that.  The Amiga almost does the right thing now.
The best scheme I've used (including the sunview window-under-the-mouse-
is-active scheme) is this:  when the active window closes, the
previously active window is made active again.  Sort of like a stack.

I realize that this is a matter of opinion, but I don't see a reason for
this change.  I do see a reason for not doing it:  the behavior on
closing a window would then be a function of mouse position, which
doesn't really have anything to do with activation.  It'll be confusing
to users who have a requester pop up, type (not mouse) something to
dismiss it, and find themselves typing somewhere unexpected.  And
what'll they do to correct it?  Why, they'll move the mouse into the
window they want to type into and continue typing.  In the wrong window.

-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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