Re: [ANN] Report on AS 1.5.5 from AppleScript Sourcebook
Re: [ANN] Report on AS 1.5.5 from AppleScript Sourcebook
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Report on AS 1.5.5 from AppleScript Sourcebook
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:50:01 -0500
Thank you. I was in fact confusing application switches with window
switches. Script Editor does work as advertised, now that you have given me
to understand the advertising.
Being sometimes excessively defensive by nature, I will say that the
Technote description does not exactly flag this distinction:
"In Script Editor 1.4.3 and earlier, command-clicking on the title of a
script window that is not frontmost would bring up a pop-up menu for that
script's path. Users expect command-dragging the titles of background
windows to drag those windows without bringing them to the front; in Script
Editor 1.5 and later, that is indeed what happens."
on 1/23/01 10:02 AM, JollyRoger at email@hidden wrote:
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on 1/23/2001 7:10 AM, Bill Cheeseman at email@hidden wrote:
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> on 1/22/01 11:11 PM, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:
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>> Yes, if you command-click on a background window, it will come to the
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>> front; however, if you command-click on a drag region (usually the title
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>> bar), you can drag it without it coming to the front.
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> I guess I wasn't being precise. When I command-click on the title text in
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> the title bar of a saved background Script Editor window, the window comes
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> to the front and then the menu pops up. When I command-click on the
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> non-title text of the title bar of any background window, the windows drags
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> but then comes to the front. I'll try to find out what extension is
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> responsible for this behavior.
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Hi Bill,
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I'm not sure what you are saying is wrong. That *is* the correct behavior.
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It works precisely the same way in Finder windows in Mac OS 9.1.
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Are you perhaps confusing layer switches between applications with window
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layer switches within the same application? Within the same application,
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you should be able to command-drag title bars without bringing windows to
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the front. But command-clicking in another application's window will result
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in that application (and hence that window) coming to the front.
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