Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:20314 comp.sys.amiga.tech:1088 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!zodiac!joyce!sri-unix!quintus!pds 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> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 24 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 ..!sun!quintus!pds