From: Jim I. <ji...@ap...> - 2005-11-30 16:56:35
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On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Brian Griffin wrote: > On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Jim Ingham wrote: >> Also, it sounds like Philip wants his app to stay in the >> background after the click. There isn't any convention for this - >> it is not something that's generally done. The only thing like >> this - which is probably what Oscar was referring to - is that if >> you Cmd-Click in the titlebar of a window, you can move the window >> around without bringing it to the foreground. This only works for >> Cocoa apps, however... > > > Try a RMB (yes, I have a 3-button mouse) on Safari tabs or > bookmarks while inactive and select a menu item like "New Tab". > Note that Safari does NOT activate, yet the menu action is taken. > Nothing funky about the menu either. But maybe 3-button mouse > behavior is "special" :) > That's even weirder, because RMB == Control-Click, not Commnad- Click. Sometimes the Apple Internal HI Police are not as active as they might be... > By the way, I agree with you, Jim. If I'm not using Focus-Follows- > Mouse, then I don't ever want a button, any button, active on an > inactive window. On the other hand, focus-follows-mouse is much > more useful, but at least then you know that the window is active > and anything goes. I really liked FFM when I was primarily typing into terminals. When you have lots of gadgets in the windows, however, having to negotiate among them so as not to hit the gadgets when you want to bring the window forward is a royal PITA, and when all you are saving is one click, it seems really pointless... Jim > > -Brian > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through > log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD > SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Tcl-mac mailing list > Tc...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-mac |