On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Mitch Chapman wrote:
> Well-put, but my customer wants mode*less* dialogs.
> They want to be able to continue working with the main
> application after the dialog appears.
>
> Imagine a window full of thumbnail vector images. A single
> left-click on a thumbnail brings up a resizable window
> showing a larger view of the window. The number of
> thumbnails, and consequently the number of enlarged views,
> can be quite large. That's what the current specs call for.
>
> Here's the problem scenario: The user has clicked on a
> thumbnail and gotten a larger view. Now the user wants to
> go back to the main window and click on another thumbnail
> to get another larger image to compare to the first. As soon
> as they click on the new thumbnail the main window comes
> forward, obscuring the original thumbnail.
Alright, tell them to turn on focus follows mouse (or sloppy
focus) without autoraising of windows. That way they can click in the
other window without raising it.
Without some control over what window manager is used, you are going to
have trouble getting what you want.
James.
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