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Date:	Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:26:15 PDT7
From:	"Robert Blair" <blairra@tstonramp.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: background/foreground/focus terminology ?

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** Reply to message from Peter Skye on Sun, 2 Nov 2003
11:46:27 PDT7

> Q1: I don't understand the difference between "background" and
> "foreground". Is background a process that does not use the screen,
> keyboard or mouse and which doesn't show up on the Workplace Shell
> Switch List or the Ctrl-Esc Window List?

That is how I understand it.

> Q2: Is "focus" the term for the window whose titlebar is blue (rather
> than gray) and which is receiving the keyboard and mouse activity?

Yes

> Q3: Can a window pop itself to the top of the display? Can a process
> pop a _different_ processes' window to the top of the display?

A window can pop up to the top, I don't know if it can if it can pop up a
window of another process.

A pop up window can have different modes.

1. has the focus and will not allow any other window to receive the focus until
the pop up has been dismissed.
2. has the focus and will not allow any other window in the same process to
receive the focus until the pop up has been dismissed.
3. the pop up will allow any other window to receive the focus.

> Q4: Can a window be popped to the top of the display (so you can see
> it, i.e. "always on top") but _not_ receive "focus"?

Yes.

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Robert Blair

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