Re: [MiNT] Click through

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:41:21 +0200, Helmut Karlowski
> <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 04.09.2011, 20:06 Uhr, schrieb Peter Slegg
> > <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
> >
> >>> > In this example I am opening a html attachment to a MyMail message.
> >>> > When I double-click on Highwire the folder on the D:\ drive opens
> >>> > as well as Highwire.
> >>>
> >>> Did you doubleclick on a thing-window before? I tried to reproduce it
> >>> without success (see screenshot).
> >>
> >> I am not sure what you mean ?
> >
> > I double-clicked on a *.txt-file to get the dialog, and everything is
> > ok. I want to know if you did something different.
>
> I think Peter means this:
>
> 1. Assign *.txt to several programs.
> 2. Double-click on a txt-file. Thing will now display a dialog showing a
> list of programs assigned to open *.txt-files.
> 3. Position this dialog so that one of it's entries (e.g. qed.app) is
> placed directly above a selectable item on the desktop or a desktop window.
> 4. Double-click on this entry. The txt-file will be opened as expected,
> and the object beneath the dialog will also respond to the double-click.

You just described exactly what I did :)

> At least this is what I *think* Peter means.

He mentioned MyMail and attachments, so maybe there have other progs to be involved to show this bug.

But I don't have internet on any atari so I can't reproduce it even when I know what Peter means.

-Helmut