Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.programmer:5438 comp.sys.mac:29684 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac Subject: Why no Command/Drag under MultiFinder? Keywords: MultiFinder Message-ID: <1706@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 6 Apr 89 09:51:20 GMT References: <1562@neoucom.UUCP> <28399@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@etive.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: LFCS Enya Admiration Society Lines: 19 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? Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...while the builders of the cages sleep with bullets, bars and stone, they do not see your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone.