From: jazz AT softway DOT com (Jason Zions)
Subject: Re: Focus-follows-mouse on NT?
11 Nov 1997 18:06:59 -0800
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To: Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Cc: David Ascher <da AT skivs DOT ski DOT org>, Bertrand DOT Guiheneuf AT inria DOT fr,
        gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> Go to the control panel, mouse, motion, and uncheck "Snap mouse to the
> default button in dialogs".

Doesn't completely help. This will indeed prevent the pointer from being
warped to the default button; it will not, however, prevent the dialog
box from getting focus in the first place. I believe Bertrand is seeking
a way to do the latter.

Personally, I'd be happy if the dialog got focus as long as the keyboard
accelerators were disabled until I took some hard-to-twitch action. I
have the same trouble Bertrand does; I'm merrily typing along in some
window and one of these dialogs pop up. My keystrokes go into the new
dialog, performing who knows what horrifying actions, and I hit the
return key before I even noticed keystrokes went awry.

Jason
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