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- M acintosh
- F eable
- W indow
- M anager
-
- For those who actually like X Window's ability to change the window focus by simply
- moving the pointer into a window, check out this hack. It works by patching FrontWindow() to
- return the window that the mouse is currently in. For those programs that follow Apple's
- sample code (and all other sample code I've seen), this works well. However, some programs
- (ie. the Finder) keep track of the foremost window on their own, which breaks the hack.
- In general, the hack will break on pointing to a window and typing. Mouse events usually
- work fine.
- Of the few apps I've tested this with, I got the following compatibility results:
-
- Application Mouse Keyboard
- ----------------------- ------- ---------
- Finder Yes No
- SimpleText Yes* Yes
- Netscape Yes Yes
- CodeWarrior IDE Yes No
- NCSA Telnet No** No**
- *One can select and deselect in background windows, but the hiliting won't redraw right.
- **But I'm planing on fixing that one for personal use. If you want a copy, drop me a note.
-
- I'd REALLY appreciate it if you would just drop me a note saying that you even tried
- the hack. I'm really curious if anyone likes this besides myself. I'm planning on maintaining
- this hack for personal use, so if you leave it on your system, be sure to drop me a line!
- This hack goes to 11.
-
- Rob Hagopian
- hagopiar@mailhost.vu.union.edu
- 6/22/96
- MacHack XI