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On 14 May 2004 at 7:13, Peter da Silva wrote: > Toolkits should also deliver events to the GUI object that was active > when the event occurred, not the one that happens to be there when the > main loop in the application gets around to handling THAT event. > Anything else is a race condition, and thus hateful. Ooh yes. And popups (e.g. reminders from calendar/scheduling programs) should not grab the keyboard focus, otherwise if you're typing and hit Space or Enter and the dialog box dismisses itself, you have no idea what just happened. Makes the whole point of a reminder useless if it dismisses itself that easily. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>There's stuff above here
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