Re: [AD] Some thoughts about multi-window applications

[Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> 1. When getting mouse (or keyboard) input the event struct does not  
> contain a pointer to the active window (or if it does, that is not  
> documented or clear from the examples). Not a problem, since you can  
> keep track of switch in/out events yourself, but it is annoying and it  
> would be convenient to have.

There are
ALLEGRO_DISPLAY* ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD_EVENT::display
ALLEGRO_DISPLAY* ALLEGRO_MOUSE_EVENT::display
Undocumented though.

> 2. Related question: I'm working under the assumption that the last  
> created window has input focus. Is this true on all platforms (it  
> would make sense)?

I wouldn't assume that. But you don't need to assume it any more, do you?

> 4. al_toggle_window_frame does nothing on OS X. I'll have to check,  
> but you may not be able to change this after the window was created.  
> If that is so, maybe this function should return true or false,  
> depending on whether the call was succesful or not (not that it would  
> matter too much - what are you going to do if it fails, after all?)

I thought we were going to remove this function because it can't be implemented 
on most platforms.


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