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Re: option-click hides apps
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Re: option-click hides apps


  • Subject: Re: option-click hides apps
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:47:44 +0200

At 10:49 Uhr -0500 15.06.2004, Chilton Webb wrote:
On Jun 15, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Sam McCandlish wrote:
Yup. You can drag background windows by holding down the apple (command) key and dragging a background window.
Have you been able to do this from OS 9? Maybe before, I don't remember...

I'm pretty sure this dates back to System 7, if I'm not mistaken.

Almost correct. On Classic MacOS, you could only do this to windows of the frontmost application (and maybe to the Finder, who always was a special citizen with regard to window activation). You could drag a window around behind a semi-modal dialog, for example. But you couldn't drag around a Photoshop window this way while SimpleText was in front.

And of course, this didn't work with apps that didn't use DragWindow (e.g. if they were written for pre-8.6 systems and thus had to fake floating windows), except if they implemented that feature themselves, but that shouldn't surprise anyone.
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 >Re: option-click hides apps (From: Chilton Webb <email@hidden>)
 >Re: option-click hides apps (From: Sam McCandlish <email@hidden>)
 >Re: option-click hides apps (From: Chilton Webb <email@hidden>)

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