Re: Autoraise
Re: Autoraise
- Subject: Re: Autoraise
- From: Kurt Bigler <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0800
on 11/14/03 12:43 PM, Scott Buchanan <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone here know if the autoraise behavior of the Apple window
> server can be changed. I need to have one window remain on top while
> making selection in the other window. So I would only like the window
> to raise if I click the border, like some other servers. It there a
> 'default' I can set. BTW is there a listing of the defaults that can
> be set?
Apple has never provided an option to *not* bring a window forward when it
is clicked in. It was apparently a design goal to avoid the additional
complexity that allowing that behavior would cause the user. This is part
of the "Mac is simple" single-button-mouse mentality.
The only option there has ever been is whether a click that brings an
application or a window forward (2 separate criteria, application vs window)
also causes action within the window, also known sometimes as "click thru".
But this is only controllable at the application programming level, not as a
user option.
However, note that when apple implemented support for drag and drop on
application windows they enhanced the click-brings-forward behavior such
that the window/application is not brought forward until the mouse is
release, and is not brought forward at all if the mouse is released over
another application's window. This allows limited interaction with the
non-foreground application without bringing it forward, but probably does
not help you.
-Kurt Bigler
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Buchanan
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