Goings on behind the scene

[Stephen Quinn Barncard]

Jim, this might be a Eudora problem - I've had this annoying 
situation with Eudora windows that were supposed to be in the 
background rudely popping up into another app I was working in... 
(OSX)...

It's so bad I have to quit Eudora completely sometimes...

obviously anti any user interface guidelines I've heard of...no other 
app has done this..

sqb


>I had a button with the following handler.:
>
>on mouseEnter
>  beep
>end mouseEnter
>
>Sure enough, it beeped every time the mouse entered.
>
>But I left RR to respond to an incoming email. I noticed while in 
>Eudora that I was getting occasional beeps, every time the mouse 
>entered a certain area. I finally tracked it down to the Run Rev 
>button *underneath* Eudora. When the mouse *in Eudora* was over the 
>button hidden *in Run Rev*, Run Rev was still at work reading 
>messages and registering beeps.
>
>Actually it happened regardless of the program. This is spooky. I 
>guess I knew that other programs were always at work, out of sight 
>and out of mind; else how would I have known that a fresh email had 
>arrived. I had also run into this fact earlier when I was getting 
>inconsistent results from a "wait 0" command.
>
>But it certainly came as a surprise that Run Rev is polling the 
>mouse while I am preoccupied elsewhere.
>
>Oddly enough, this beeping button does not respond to the MouseEnter 
>(or mousewithin) when it is covered by another button within Run Rev.
>
>Live and learn; live and blunder into things.
>
>Jim