Re: Option-click on my app hides the other app
Re: Option-click on my app hides the other app
- Subject: Re: Option-click on my app hides the other app
- From: Steve Bird <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:06 -0400
On Aug 10, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Ben Haller wrote:
If app A is active, and the user option-clicks on a window
belonging to app B, not only does app B come active as usual, app A
also hides. This is apparently intentional and documented
behavior, although I was unaware of it until today. Wacky.
--- Not sure why you call it "wacky" - it's been there for some
time. It's in the Shortcuts for Windows section of Mac Help.
The problem: Unfortunately, I want to use option-clicks in my
app, and I want to take clicks even when I'm not active (my window
is floating and usable even when my app is not the active app). So
this behavior gets in the way; the user just wants to option-click
in my window, and the option-click hides the active app, which was
not their intention.
Any way to turn off this facility?
--- You want to turn off a documented system-wide way of doing
things, so that your app will work the way you want?
Not a good idea, IMO. People get used to doing things with certain
combinations, even if you don't know about them. If your app doesn't
do that, and everybody else's does, then whose app is busted? Yours.
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