Re: beachball

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: beachball
Date: 22:08 on 26 Apr 2005
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:01:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > And that if you want FFM for all apps you have to buy something like
> > CodeTek Virtual Desktop Pro for $40.
> > http://www.codetek.com/ctvd/
> 
> And I tried that, just to see, and decided that Apple would need to make
> some significant user interface changes to make that style workable. Or
> someone would need to do some pretty amazing hacks. Maybe Codetek has done
> that by now, but FFM plus raise-on-focus plus a detached menu bar and panels
> that disappear when you lose focus... no... I don't think so.

Yes, I remember using something called "Sloop" in the OS 8 days which did
FFM but with raise-on-focus with the additional problem that it raised not
just one window but all windows of that application.  A MacOS Classic UI
issue.

New version of Codetek sez it has focus without raise.

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