Re: option-click hides apps
Re: option-click hides apps
- Subject: Re: option-click hides apps
- From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:47:12 -0700
On Jun 15, 2004, at 5:32 PM, m wrote:
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but wouldn't it be easier to
just move to the platform you are trying to emulate than to change the
behavior of a platform with different design goals?
You asked a question, how many ways can one take it? No, it wouldn't be
easier to move to another platform since I'm writing code for OS X.
I might add that hacking things so that a window doesn't have to be
active for it to be, um, active violates assumptions that the
underlying code may have about the relationship between active windows
and the models they present. Which is to say, you will find that
applications won't behave as you expect if you change the windowing
model to something the applications don't expect, making all your
efforts pointless.
I don't think I am allowing them to be active when they aren't. (Even
if I was, that wouldn't be the first time. Have you never opened two
applications, started typing in one and then the second opened on top
and yet you were still typing in the previous window?) OS X allows
windows to be moved when they are in the background. I'm not trying to
do anything more than that. Resizing in the background might be another
issue, but that is not really important to me.
If applications cannot handle having their windows moved unless they
are in the foreground, then they are going to have a lot of trouble
running on OS X to begin with.
- Steve
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