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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: An annoying feature of 1.1,1.2, etc that I want gone
Summary: Here's a better solution
Keywords: Suggestion
Message-ID: <135@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 21:34:37 GMT
References: <4023@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <4023@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Kevin Oster) writes:
>   A change I would like to see in new versions of ROM: when a requestor
>comes up so inform the user of, say, no disk in df1: or insert system disk,
>etc, its window should not be activated. This would save me the trouble
>of hitting the mouse on the window I was typing in to select it again.

I agree that this is annoying.  There is a better way to fix this,
though, that would fix other similar misfeatures, too.

Suppose when intuition took the "focus" (keyboard ownership) from window
A and gave it to window B, it recorded the fact that A was the previous
owner in B. Then, when B is closed, ownership is given back to A. This
should happen whether focus was transferred by mouse click, or
automatically when a new window is opened.  (If A was already closed
when B was closed, intuition could do as it does now, and not give the
focus to any window.)

Thus focus could be viewed as a stack.  Activating a window is pushing
focus, and closing the focus window is popping focus.  This allows
windows to pop up, have information enterred, and pop back down leaving
you doing what you were doing before without touching the mouse.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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