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- From: bonneau@hyper.hyper.com (Paul Bonneau)
- Subject: Re: Changing Window's focus: possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.145745.3278@hyper.hyper.com>
- Reply-To: bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,)
- Organization: HyperCube Inc.
- References: <4NOV199210331435@zeus.tamu.edu> <682@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:57:45 GMT
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- In article <682@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com> twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown) writes:
- >In article <4NOV199210331435@zeus.tamu.edu>, sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
- >|> Is it possible to write a program which changes the way Windows focuses?
- >|> I would like the active window to be selected by mouse pointer position,
- >|> without necessarily bringing the window to the front. Has anybody done
- >|> anything similar to this? Thanks.
- >
- >This would seem to be hard to do. MS Windows kinda has a built-in
- >window manager (or, Windows *is* the window manager, may be a better way
- >of saying it). I've not seen anything of the sort and there's probably
- >enough interest that if it were easy it would've been done.
- >
- Actually I think this would be doable. Given the fact that
- 3.1 now has 2 z orders (topmost and non-topmost windows), and
- coupled with a DLL hosted message hook, it might not be that
- hard to cobble up a solution. BTW, you can think of USER as
- the window manager, but there are many ways to modify its
- behaviour.
-
- cheers - Paul.
-