Re: [MiNT] XaAES

[Odd Skancke <ozk@atari.org>]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Thomas Binder wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 12:07:32PM +0200, Odd Skancke wrote:
> >  I seem to be a bit confused as to how N.AES handles clicks on
> >  the rootwindow (desktop). Under N.AES, single left-clicks on
> >  empty desktop areas brings Thing ontop. Right-clicks opens up
> >  Thing's popup.
> >
> >  Seeing this, I made xaaes pass all clicks to Thing's event
> >  handler. However, left-clicks now did not do anything at all. I
> >  thought Thing topped itself. Right-clicks behaved just like
> >  under N.AES.
>
> Well, Thing _does_ handle this situation itself. But it uses OS
> specific calls to top itself, there's a correspondig call in
> N.AES. I can't currently recall neither its name nor whether it is
> detectable via appl_getinfo(). If you want, I'll look it up in the
> code.

 Aha! If you could look that up in the original code, I'd be very pleased,
thanks ;-) I'd like to get XaAES as compatible with N.AES as possible,
before going further.

>
> (The main problem for an application to top itself is to activate
> the menu bar, as there's no real standard AES call for that.)

 Yes, I see the problem.



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 Odd Skancke - ozk.atari.org - http://assemsoft.atari.org