Re: [ProgSoc] Buttons

[Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <wzdd@nospam.tig.com.au>]

At 10:18 18/06/98 +1000, Geoff Saxby wrote:
>Does anyone know why it is possible to click buttions in Win95 (and other
>GUIs for that matter) and have it visually go in and out, but no command
>be executed? Surely if the code recognises a mouse click enough to depress
>(?) the button then it should pass the message along to the app.

That'd be when the OS is still active, to send button up and button down
messages to the application's message queue, but the application itself is
not able to process messages.

- Nicholas
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