wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) (11/07/90)
OK. It's obvious that some people prefer not having to click in a window
to make it the key window. It's also obvious that having an application
activate whenever a mouse moves into its window is stupid. Leaving aside
for a moment the wisdom of creating yet another convention for clicking
and focusing, it would be quite possible to write a patch to the window
package that greatly modifies the behavior of the NeXT. (Only thing I can't
think of a good way to do is to activate an application without having
the key window move to the front; I think the makeKeyAndOrderFront: is
probably hardcoded into the application). There are already patches lying
around that will let you bind keys to activate certain applications,
and you can always uncomment the bit of the package that lets you move
windows up and down with Cmd-Arrow (yes, this is 1.0 ...). If someone
has a *clear* notion of what they want the mouse to do, and it doesn't
need tweaking of the applications themselves, I might even be willing
to write it. But think it through twice before posting ...
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