[comp.sys.mac.programmer] how to handle a mouseDown in another program's windows?

johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) (11/27/90)

I am writing a program (Think C 4.0) that in one part uses a modeless dialog.

    while (not_done)
      { WaitNextEvent( ... );
	if (it_is_a_dialog_event)
	    do_dialog_stuff();
	else
	  { if (it_is_a_mouseDown)
	    thePart = FindWindow( ... );
	      { if (thePart==inMenuBar)
		    do_menu_stuff();
		else if (thePart==inSysWindow)
		    SystemClick( ... );
		/* here */
	       }
	   }
       }

What is not working the way I want it to is changing to another program
(under MultiFinder, of course) by clicking on another program's window.
Do I need to put something else where I marked "/* here */" in the code?
Perhaps checking if (mouseDown_inDesk)?

Thanks for the help.


Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student        \ Internet:  johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering  \
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \ AmericaOnline: ErikAJ

johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) (11/29/90)

Well with some help I figured out why I couldn't get my Mac to switch to
another application through mouseDown-ing in that applications window while
my application is frontmost.

"Currently, MultiFinder will not suspend your application when the frontmost
window is a modal dialog box with a window of type dBoxProc ..."
(Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder, (c) 1988, Apple; p. 3-11)

(The dBoxProc window is the standard double-lined dialog window.)

I found that using a modeless dialog box of type dBoxProc also (though after
re-reading the stuff about modeless dialogs in IM I, I think I'm using it
contrary to standard Apple guidelines -- OH NO! :-) ).

Thanks to all who responded, especially Steve Dorner at UIUC for pointing
out the dBoxProc stuff, and to Phil Shapiro at Symantec for pointing me to
the Programmer's Guide to MF.


Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student        \ Internet:  johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering  \
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \ AmericaOnline: ErikAJ