[BUG] Mac Squeak gets all mouse events even when not active

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Fri Apr 6 10:17:22 UTC 2001


On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Hah! You think you got troubles with events? You should see the fun I'm
> having with events for the Acorn; no mouse move events are ever
> provided, you don't get mid-level events suitable for our needs at all!
> Risc OS provides very high level events in a manner that depends on what
> kind of _button_ you tag the window to be. Or you can sit on the lowest
> level OS vectors and have the fun of deciding whether the interupt is
> relevant to your program or not. Oh, and remember that a Risc OS app can
> be the active one even if it is buried behind many others, so no simple
> test of coordinate->rectangle is useful. It's almost enough to make me
> fond of X.

Hear, hear! ;-)

I think we should disable windowed Squeak altogether - full screen is the
only thing that makes sense here, along with direct framebuffer access,
and maybe some rudimentary drivers for keyboard and mouse ...

-- Bert





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