Workbench 3.1 - How can I make window get active when I click on them?

[sim085]

Hello,

Something which annoys me in Workbench 3.1 is that when I have a lot of windows open I can not just click on a window to get it infront. I decided to search on Aminet and I did find a tool that could help me out:

http://aminet.net/package/util/mouse/ClickToFront

However the problem with this tool is that when I click on a bench icon all the open window get hidden behind the Workbench window!

My question are these;

1) Do you know of any other tool that does this? That is activate widow on click.

2) Is there maybe another tool that makes workbench window always be the last windows?

Regards,
Sim085

[sim085]

AFAIR the "clickToFront" commodity is included since OS 2.1.

Where? Do you mean the icon to the right. I was more thinking of something that where ever you click on a window it would come to the front.

it is very convenient to be able to operate in a back window without having it have to come to the front

Do you mean that this feature was not included in Workbench on purpose? What is the reason behind that? Is this feature also lacking in Workbench 3.5, 3.9 and 4.0?

[sim085]

He never said that. I think it's very convenient to have active windows not always come to the front. I use ClickToFront with 2 clicks. An example of why this is convenient? At work I use the Windows calculator and would like it be on top when working with other programs. True, there are some programs that can always on top in Windows but the Amiga approach is more flexible.

I do have the ClickToFront with 2 clicks. The problem is that when I click on an icon such as "Ram Disk", "System" I get the Workbench window in front and this hides all the other open windows. I would like to avoid this.

[sim085]

In Tools/Commodities/

Do I have to move the ClickToFront icon to WBStartUp? When I double click on it nothing happens? Or maybe I have to run it from Schell.

From Workbench menu choose Backdrop

Can I set workbench to always start as backdrop?

[sim085]

Yes, when the Workbench window is active, choose Snapshot->Window from the Window menu...

Yes ... that just came to mind and went to try it out! ... thanks.

[sim085]

Found this to configure clickToFront .. will try it out

http://www.amigau.com/amigarealm/thisoldworkbench/html/towb19.html

[sim085]

What annoys me is just the opposite in other operating systems

... but a double click to front seems like a fair arrangement

btw - what I did to get ClickToFront work was move it from Tools/Commodities to WBStartup. Is this correct? Or I should do it otherwise?