On 24 Jun, Stig wrote:
> Elmar Kurgpold wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone think of a way to cause AutoRaise to not do anything while a
>> mouse button is pressed?
>>
>> The situation: I go to select a menu on an application (say Netscape)
>> that is lowered. Typically, I won't wait for the window to AutoRaise,
>> I'll just go for the menu. The menu pops up, then the rest of the
>> window pops up over the menu a moment later. I waste precious seconds
>> fiddling around with it to get the menu again.
>>
>
> Possibly it would be even better to raise the window AND it's menus all at
> once. Does a module even find out about the transient windows used for
> menus?
>
> Perhaps the fix here is to raise all children when the managed window is
> raised?
Yes, this would in theory be better, more complete. Especially for
app menus that you can click once and it stays up.
Is a menu, such as the drop down menus in Netscape, considered a
transient? Is it possible for AutoRaise to act on all the transients
of a window?
++Elmar
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Received on Tue Jun 24 1997 - 11:39:46 BST