Re: Tunneling mouse events through windows?
Re: Tunneling mouse events through windows?
- Subject: Re: Tunneling mouse events through windows?
- From: Geoff Lane <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:49:19 -0600
Focus-Follows-Mouse - that's what I want to figure out how to do
efficiently. I know CodeTek Virtual desktop exists, but it is incredibly
overkill and also the FFM sucks because it raises the window instead of
just giving it focus for input.
It's obviously possible within a single application (see the latest
version of the Terminal.app), but it would be best suited for the window
manager and not each app.
(Aside: Keep the prefs alone and just make people use the 'defaults'
command because anyone who wants FFM will be capable of doing a
'defaults write'. OR just make an Advanced options preference or the like)
Public Look wrote:
There seem to be a lot of questions about implementing status items,
mouse event tunneling, login items, deamons, circumventing security and
authentication, bypassing standard control behavior, etc.
I am just curious what so many people are implementing that needs so
many outside-the-box solutions? Are we all implementing alternative
system preferences mechanisms and virtual file systems ? ;) Perhaps the
perceived need for so many products that explicitly violate Apple
specified and supported behavior is an indication that something
fundamental is missing or broken in Mac OS X.
My own preference is to never install haxies, themes, untrusted third
party system components, funky transparent windows that don't behave
like windows, deamons that need authentication or circumvent
authentication, etc. My own preference is clearly not shared by others,
or (what I fear) something critical is missing from Mac OS X that forces
many people to resort to such things in spite of the fact that people
share my reservations.
On Nov 19, 2003, at 3:33 AM, Dinu Gherman wrote:
Hi,
I have a window A flowing on top of the screen which I want to not
only completely ignore certain mouse events, but to pass them on
to whatever other window B is below that window A, where B is most
likely controlled by another application. Is that possible at all?
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Geoff Lane <email@hidden>
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