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Re: Turn off background click behavior on a window?
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Re: Turn off background click behavior on a window?


  • Subject: Re: Turn off background click behavior on a window?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:15:50 -0600

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> However, this is the wrong solution. A button that doesn’t click through
> should *look* different when the app is in the background (and shouldn’t
> do rollover highlighting). So a better solution is to disable buttons you
> don’t want click-through for, when your app enters the background.

Huh. I am surprised, but apparently this is precisely what Mail does:
you can't Trash a message in a background window, even if you
Command-click it.

> Dangerous things should be undoable or have a confirming alert anyway.

Steve writes music software. To pick an example, disabling recording on
an active input track should NOT require a confirmation alert, even
though it's a destructive action.

--Kyle

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