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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: keropi on December 18, 2006, 09:47:44 PM

Title: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: keropi on December 18, 2006, 09:47:44 PM

In my search for a cdity that actually allows you to do a single click on a background window (either border or body) to bring it on top, I tried many from aminet (some actually did nothing on 3.9), and only found really working on AOS3.9 the "WindowToFront" one.... but even that, after some time stops to work?!!
I was wondering what people use for that purpose on 3.9 setups?

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: Matt_H on December 18, 2006, 09:58:45 PM

WindowToFront works for me.

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: Roj on December 18, 2006, 10:20:11 PM

Similar behavior from all window-to-front commodities happened here too. On my system, any time I popped up a MUI help bubble, window-to-front utilities would stop responding. The real culprit for me was MagicMenu. When I killed that, ClickToFront, the plain vanilla commodity, became very reliable.

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: keropi on December 18, 2006, 10:25:59 PM

ah, I always install Magic Menu, I really like it...
Roj, did u find a magic menu replacement, or just stopped using it?

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: Roj on December 18, 2006, 10:52:56 PM

I couldn't find a decent replacement. After trying a lot of different options, I opted ultimately for functionality over eye candy.

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: keropi on December 18, 2006, 10:58:42 PM

 :-(
well, u can't have it all I guess...
thanks for the info!

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: oddmario on December 19, 2006, 03:07:35 AM

Off topic
Where is  Ioannina?
Thessaloniki i know!
I want the distance in metric so i can convince to sell me one of your ppc cards  :-)

:-)
Kronja poula

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: AmigaHeretic on December 19, 2006, 03:36:37 AM

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In my search for a cdity that actually allows you to do a single click on a background window (either border or body) to bring it on top,

Single click?  Double click to front is one my favorite things about Amiga.  I have tried for years to find something that did this in Windows XP.   :-)

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: keropi on December 19, 2006, 07:08:09 AM

Ioannina is the head city of Hepirus, it is 350km away from Thessaloniky, geographically is near to Albania... the albanian border is 50-60km from here... look it here:

(http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapimages/europe/greece/greece.gif)

yeah, single mouse click is better, not 2! lol

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: tonyvdb on December 19, 2006, 10:46:32 PM

It seems Aminet is down again, where can I find WindowToFront or one of the other ones.

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: AmiKit on December 19, 2006, 10:51:23 PM

You might want to try a MCP. It's possible to configure it for the singleclick.

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: TheGoose on January 09, 2008, 03:32:37 AM

I can't get my clicktofront to work? I remeber some trick you had to do to the icon, tooltype?

I'm just tuning my new 3.9 install...

 :-?

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: Krischan76 on January 09, 2008, 07:26:57 AM

DONOTWAIT when you wanna start it via the WBStartup drawer. Maybe that?

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: weirdami on January 09, 2008, 09:12:11 AM

@tonyvdb

Wow, that's some signature.

Title: Re: Is there a click-to-front type utility for OS3.9 that actually works OK?
Post by: TheGoose on January 20, 2008, 11:31:24 PM

Ah, set the icon to run from shell, not WB.
Then all is a go.

 :-D


Edit:

And on plain old AOS 3.1 there is no option to run from shell. There is a QUALIFIER=LEFT ALT in the Tool Types, just delete this and it starts to work.