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From: oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: windows
Message-ID: <148@thelink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 23:19:48 GMT
Organization: TheLink-Public Access Unix, South Bend, IN.
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 have a Toolbox question.. In Applications such as DeluxePaint II,
clicking the mouse in the tools (to select, say the pen) does not deactivate
other windows (i.e. It does not 'activate' the tool window. When I say this,
I mean that it was stated that when a user clicks on an inactive window, it
only becomes active and the mouse click has no effect on the window other
than making it active.)  How is this accomplished?  In the example programs
to TML Pascal (Standalone), a drawing program is included that allows you to
'draw'. The thing that I notice in that program is that you must first
'activate' the tool window before selecting a tool and then 'activate' the
drawing window before drawing.  How can this be avoided?  This could be
beneficial in say, a Calculator NDA so that it does not require a window to
be deactivated just to make a quick computations (The IIgs manipulated
Windows too quickly,  I was jealous when I saw the MAC finder as opposed to
the IIgs finder)

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