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Article 5676 of comp.sys.amiga:
Path: mcdsun!noao!hao!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce
From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ClickToFront executable
Summary: comp.binaries.amiga = comp.bitbucket.amiga
Message-ID: <8706220556.AA06685@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 87 05:56:49 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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This is ClickToFront. It extends the Amiga user-interface so that:
A single-click into a window works as always.
A double-click into a window brings it to the front.
No more hunting for page gadgets!!
The executable should end up at 956 bytes. It is much smaller when actually
installed in memory. A "uudecode" program to decode the above binaries can
be found on FISH disk #53.
If you use this, adjust the preferences "click rate" slider upwards for
best results (make double-click less sensitive).
Source has been posted to comp.sources.amiga. Sadly this is also comp.
bitbucket.amiga at this time.
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Ack! (NAK,EOT,SOH)
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{o O} . bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!cogsci!bryce
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U Single tasking? Just say *NO!*
Note from Dick Barnes: Although the only docs we have on this program (above)
don't tell you a helluva lot, here's what we've found:
1. This program runs in the background. It can be started in CLI WITHOUT
a RUN and won't encumber the CLI in which started. It can be put into
your boot sequence.
2. A double click into any visible part of a window brings the window to
the front (except for the Workbench screen itself, which ain't a
window).
3. If there's a way to turn it off once started, we haven't found it. Most
GOOD background programs provide an exit when you want to get rid of
them. This one doesn't (or if it does, it's well-hidden).
4. If you work with many small windows, it's useful. It you work with full-
sized windows, you may have trouble when you click out of one (at the
back gadget) and try to get another. A double click will sometimes send
you right back to your old window. Because we work with full-sized
windows most of the time, we prefer Heliosmouse. But many prefer smaller
windows--and a lot of Amigans have told us they like Clicktofront. Viva
differences!