Re: Tunneling mouse events through windows?
Re: Tunneling mouse events through windows?
- Subject: Re: Tunneling mouse events through windows?
- From: Dave Rehring <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:00:07 -0800
On 11/19/03 11:00 AM, Cameron Hayne at email@hidden wrote:
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On 19/11/03 1:18 PM, "Public Look" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> There seem to be a lot of questions about implementing status items,
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> mouse event tunneling, login items, deamons, circumventing security and
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> authentication, bypassing standard control behavior, etc.
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I suspect that some of this discussion is caused by people who are (now that
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OS X has become more popular) trying to port Windows applications to OS X.
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They often seem to either have "requirements" that say "make it work the
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same on OS X as it does on Windows" or else are trying to save time by using
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an implementation that uses the same techniques they use on Windows.
Well, not all of it. OS X is very much a 'you stupid user, you can't do it
that way. You HAVE to do it this way, and you will like it.'
Things like:
- needing a kernel extension to get back the use of my function keys.
- why is so much space wasted in a finder window just because it has to be
Metal. To use the improved navigation parts of the Finder, you need to give
up a bunch of screen real estate dedicated to displaying a nice silver.
- 3 ways to mount a server volume, some of which can use the keychain and
some of which will display on the desktop.
- getting rid of the Dock because I have a WAY more powerful application and
document launching/tracking utility.
- a trash can on the desktop.
Right now, you have to do some very ugly things to bend OS X to work in a
way that many people would like it to.
One step forward, two steps back.
Later,
--
David Rehring Psychos do not explode when light hits
VP of Research and Development them, no matter how crazy they are...
Atimi Software, Inc.
www.atimi.com And totally insane guy!
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