mouse clicks in os-x

John Pfersich jp1660 at att.net
Thu Jul 29 19:40:52 UTC 2004


Ned Konz wrote:
>
>At least my window manager (kwm) allows me to specify that policy. That is, I
>can choose between "Activate, Raise & Pass Click", "Activate & Pass Click",
>"Activate & Raise", etc. for the action of each of the buttons on an inactive
>inner window (and separately on an active or inactive titlebar or frame).
>
>In the Unix X11 display module, we tell the window manager that we expect
>input but never explicitly set focus to any of our subwindows.
>
>However, in the Windows VM we ensure that we have focus on a WM_?BUTTONDOWN
>(OR BUTTONUP) message, then go ahead and process it as normal (in fact, we
>check the focus twice on a buttonUP message, just to make sure!). So the
>behavior is the same as kwm's "Activate and pass click". But this is a focus
>policy decision on the part of Squeak.
>
>Ned Konz
>http://bike-nomad.com

In the Mac world, you can't define that behavior. That's the way it's 
supposed to work.
-- 
		----------------------------------------------------
Source code in files. How quaint. -- Kent Beck



More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list