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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: windowing question
Message-ID: <1558@sas.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 19:01:50 GMT
References: <0ZpMuCC00VQDE6YEQg@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <0ZpMuCC00VQDE6YEQg@andrew.cmu.edu> rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes:
>
>Is there any way to open windows that will not become active if they are
>clicked on?    The reason that I'de like to know is that I want to have
>1 window that gets all of the keyboard input, and other windows for
>display which could cover the input window.   Any suggestions would be
>appreciated.

I suggest you use a single IDCMP port for all your windows.  This way, if you 
get an ACTIVEWINDOW message, you can call Activate() on your input window
right away.  Or you could even read the input keystrokes from all windows,
thereby doing away with the necessity for an input window.

I did this in PickPacket, if you can find a copy take a look at the window
code.  Closing windows gets a little tricky.


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