ClickToFront on os3.1

[AndyFC]

I can't get ClickToFront to run automatically. I have moved it from Commodities to WBStartup but it has no effect. It works if I double-click to run it.

My test is to simply open two windows and double click the one at the back.

Any suggestions of how to get it to work automatically please?

[golem]

Not an answer but a workaround...I always use MultiCX on 3.1. It does everything the Commodore commodities do and much more.

[guest11527]

I can't get ClickToFront to run automatically. I have moved it from Commodities to WBStartup but it has no effect. It works if I double-click to run it.

Probably it is run and working. Check the tooltypes - the default tooltypes of ClickToFront configure it in such a way that you need to press ALT together with the mouse to move the window to the front.

[mechy]

In the tooltypes set:
Qualifier=NONE
Activate=1

that should make it automatically work.

[paul1981]

In the tooltypes set:
Qualifier=NONE
Activate=1

that should make it automatically work.

Yes, quite. Why on earth they weren't the defaults eludes me (and others it seems).

[paul1981]

Not an answer but a workaround...I always use MultiCX on 3.1. It does everything the Commodore commodities do and much more.

So do I, but unfortunately the ClickToFront feature of MultiCX does not work correctly with the new layers.library by Thomas. The symptoms are that it does not 'click to front' in certain situations. Even if you turn off that particular feature of MultiCX (all of them in fact), it will still patch into that related code and not enable you to use Commodore's ClickToFront commodity correctly either.

[golem]

Ok. I guess MultiCX is not entirely system friendly then. How about Magic Menu? Does that work well with 3.1.4?

[guest11527]

Ok. I guess MultiCX is not entirely system friendly then. How about Magic Menu? Does that work well with 3.1.4?

MagicMenu does not work well with any system. What this program attempts to do cannot be done - the trouble is the delicate message and locking system within intuition, and parts of the communication to the client programs. For example, MagicMenu does not support MENUVERIFY correctly.

[AndyFC]

@mechy, I tested this in the WinUAE back up I have of my real Amiga and it worked so thank you. I'll apply it to my real machine next weekend (I currently have to set it up on the dining table).