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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why no Command/Drag under MultiFinder?
Keywords: MultiFinder
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Date: 7 Apr 89 22:27:50 GMT
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In article <1706@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>Just a quick observation. The finder allows Command/drag on inactive
>windows; they move around, but don't come to the front and don't
>become active. I recall this facility being in the interface
>guidelines, so conformant applications should do it as well, although
>I don't know how many do (MOTU's Performer doesn't, which is irritating
>me).
>   So: why doesn't this paradigm extend to MultiFinder? If I'm running
>MacFoo in as the foreground application, shouldn't I be able to command/drag
>the finder windows around without otherwise waking the finder up? And the
>other way round, of course... Or is there something about "layers" which
>makes this undesirable or difficult to do?


I think that the list of windows is maintained such that each applications
windows are in a layer unique to that application.  I.E. the linked list
of windows is switched in and out with the application, so as far as the 
finder (or anyone else) is concerned, windows of an application in the 
background are non-existent.
 
I agree that it would be nice if MF could do what you want it to.  Maybe
in the future.  




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