Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!iuvax!ndmath!thelink!oliver 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. Lines: 22 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | oliver@thelink.UUCP |AT&T (219) 291-8343| GEnie K.SUMNER [Joel] | | (Joel Sumner) |----------------------------------------------------| |USnail 1505 Sheffield Ct. | It is always darkest before the lights go out | | South Bend, IN 46614| | !--------------------------------------------------------------------------! ZZA