Re: Beta 5
Linux Idiot (esoteric@denali.atlnet.com)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:39:46 +0000
Dagmar d'Surreal wrote:
>
> On 6 Oct 1998, Doug Alcorn wrote:
>
> > <nearly random spewwing of potential nonsense>
> > It the above happens to be true, wouldn't it be nice to have a
> > feature that would cause the mouse pointer to always jump inside the
> > child window. The would prevent the unwanted parent autoraising
> > feature.
> > <\wistfull hoping for something that may exist>
>
> Noooo... BAD! :( I there's one thing I can't stand, it's a spastic mouse
> pointer. It should go where I put it and not go racing off somewhere
> else. It just slows me down because I have to waste time looking for
> where it zipped off to, instead of looking at where I'm about to try to
> click. Please, please, Mr. Developers, please if you make any more
> spastic mouse options, make them disableable. (Something about forcing
> the mouse to the window to get around the focus problem sounds like a
> kludge, anyway. :/ )
I don't think this is the answer. The solution is, the drop down menu
of a window should never be below the window. It makes no sense. I
don't know the code, but this is a bug. It should not happen, there's
no purpose behind it.
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You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????
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