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- From: hguijt@nijmegen.inter.nl.net (H.Guijt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Say *perhaps* to fat binaries
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 19:20:24 GMT
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- Yvon Rozijn (yrozijn@xs4all.nl) wrote:
- >Actually, you can *never* avoid this, even if you don't use keyboard control
- >at all. Suppose I want to click a button in a requester, I position the
- >mouse pointer, and the split second before I to press the mouse button,
- >another
- >requester pops up in front. I will actually be clicking the wrong gadget.
-
- I knew someone would bring this up ;-)
-
- About the only thing the OS can do to avoid this is to position requesters
- at a distance from your mousepointer. ReqTools can do this, BTW.
-
- Besides, we were arguing against the common case of a person typing without
- looking at his screen. People using the mouse are generally speaking looking
- at the screen. The problem is less severe in this case.
-
- >The only solution would be never to allow requesters to pop up in front of
- >other windows, but that seems to contradict the nature of requesters.
-
-
- Bye,
-
- Hans
-