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: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:40:20 -0600
- Replyto: email@hidden
on 1/23/2001 9:50 AM, Bill Cheeseman (email@hidden) wrote:
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Thank you. I was in fact confusing application switches with window
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switches. Script Editor does work as advertised, now that you have given me
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to understand the advertising.
Cool beans. :)
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Being sometimes excessively defensive by nature, I will say that the
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Technote description does not exactly flag this distinction:
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"In Script Editor 1.4.3 and earlier, command-clicking on the title of a
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script window that is not frontmost would bring up a pop-up menu for that
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script's path. Users expect command-dragging the titles of background
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windows to drag those windows without bringing them to the front; in Script
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Editor 1.5 and later, that is indeed what happens."
Yes, they could probably spell it out better than that to make this subtle
point more clear.
JR
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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.