On Thu 3 May 2001 18:25:43 +0100,
"Adye, TJ (Tim) " <T.J.Adye_at_rl.ac.uk> wrote,
>
> > which I think should mean that the button remains shown as
> > depressed until the XTerm window appears (this is what used
> > to happen). Now the button is only shown depressed as long as
> > mouse button is down. Is this a new bug, or am I using the
> > wrong syntax?
>
>If that's true, it must have been removed recently. It used to
>do this in 2.3.6, and it's still in the (2.3.31) FvwmButtons man
>page:-
>
> Any fvwm command is recognized by FvwmButtons.
> See fvwm2(1) for more infomation. The Exec com-
> mand has a small extension when used in Actions,
> its syntax is:
>
> Exec ["hangon"] command
>
> When FvwmButtons finds such an Exec command, the
> button remains pushed in until a window whose name
> or class matches the quoted portion of the command
> is encountered. This is intended to provide visual
> feedback to the user that the action he has
> requested will be performed. If the quoted portion
> contains no characters, then the button will pop
> out immediately. Note that users can continue
> pressing the button, and re-executing the command,
> even when it looks "pressed in."
>
>I rather liked this functionality, but I agree that it's not a
>critical feature. If it was decided to remove it (when did that
>happen - I didn't notice it in the news?), then I guess the
>documentation should be updated.
>
I too agree that it was VERY useful and would certainly vote to
have it be reinstated (its the correct intuitive thing to see).
I consider the lack of a "pushed-in" visual a bug; as a compromise
could a flag be introduced to result in that visual ?
Thanks and keep up the great work.
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Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 11:27:09 BST