Changing focus of windows without mouse click (X-mouse)

X-mouse allows you to, with mouseover, activate and use windows without having to draw them to the front. So you can, for example, hover your cursor over a window that's only partially visible type to it without it coming to the front. It was one of my favorite add-ons in Windows (I used TweakUI to activate it).
However, despite looking long and hard, I have not seen anything remotely like it available for Mac. I know that the capability exists, because occasionally it works automatically (for example within the Finder).
Has anyone found a way to do this in Leopard?

Thanks for the tips; I did know about them and use them frequently.
My problem is that often I like to keep track of multiple windows, and it's just annoying to be shuffling through them all the time -- one is often just a background window that I want to type things into time and again.
Well, I suppose I should write to feedback sometime.

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* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes
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Clear Cookies & Cache
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Template:clearCookiesCache
Clear the Network Cache
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Check and tell if its working.

Distinguishing b/t two single mouse-click and mouse-double-click

Hi,
I am curious to find out how Forms will distinguish between two single when-mouse-click events and a single when-mouse-doubleclick event. Is it simply a timing issue or is there more involved i.e. the 'co-ordinates' of the mouse. Thanks in advance for any opinions given,
regards,
Kevin.

The difference is same as the difference of Apple and Orange.
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Mouse clicks and keystrokes

When I edit mouse click in mouse properties, it
doesn't always make the sound when it's checked (ticked), and
sometimes makes a mouse click sound when it's not ticked. If you
run it through again, it often responds differently. The same thing
happens with keystroke sounds, though less frequently. Is this a
common problem, is it my computer, or is there some way of fixing
this problem?

Keyboard shortcuts were often missed. For example, I tried this sequence many times.
0: (setup: text editor is scrolled to first line and cursor is at the beginning of the first line)
1: Click on text editor window to focus it.
2: press SHIFT-DownArrow to move cursor down one line and select the first line
3: press CMD-X to cut the line.
Automator never would capture those key strokes.
But today I has a break through. This sequence does work:
0: (setup: text editor is scrolled to bottom of the file and the cursor is placed below the last line.)
1: Click on text editor window to focus it.
2: press SHIFT-UpArror to move cursor up one line and select the last line.
3: press CMD-X to cut the line.
about 70% of the time this did get recorded correctly (I did maybe 3 recordings and one failed to select). Once it got recorded correctly it worked reliably.
So it seems to be able to capture some sequences but not others. Both sequences work very reliably when I type them but automator can only capture the last sequence.
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I can't hear a mouse click

Hey,
On a slide, after you insert the mouse, isn't there something I should do to hear the mouse click. I've already got all of the buttons checked under the mouse properties(show mouse click and mouse click sound). Now, shouldn't I simply hear a click at the end of the mouse object? Is there some kind of global setting I am missing?
What gives?
Thanks.
Jeff

Hi there
Mouse click sounds exist as an audio file and are not recorded. While I'm not one of the Captivate Development team, it is my understanding that all that is recorded are the starting and ending points as well as the pointer in use.
Of course Mouse object provides click sounds. The evidence is in the dialog.
A bit of a mystery as to why you may not be hearing them. Any chance of sharing your project so one of us may see first hand?
Cheers... Rick
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No right mouse click in Safari?

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When I right mouse click (Mighty Mouse) in Safari no popup appears. (The one that would have "Back" - "Forwar" - "Reload", etc.)
In Firefox right mouse click brings up this popup as does IE.
Am I missing something, can I get this to work in Safari?
Cheers,
D.

What happens if you control-left-click. This should bring up the same contextual menu as a right-click. If that doesn't work then I would try creating a new user account, launch Safari from that account and try the right-click. If the new user account works then you have a corruption issue in your own account. There is no option in Safari to turn this action on or off. Contextual menus are part of the operating system itself.
I have found that the right-click menu in Safari depends on where your cursor is when you right-click. If I right-click over graphic areas I sometimes get a different menu relating to images or graphics.

Mouse clicks on windows without focus

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By comparison, look at any native Windoze or Macintosh application; very few (if any) behave that way.

This must be very hard for LabView to do. I just need to use LabView to run another application. Then have labview emulate a mouse click on that application. I have found out the windows message using Spy++ for the mouse click. Now in LabView I need to move the mouse to a certain position on that application. How could LabView know where to move the mouse cursor. I found some move cursor vi on this forum, then the coordinate of the position on the application (the active window) is not known. Do I need to map out the position in advance using Spy++? That seems not reasonable as later on the position may change.
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Changing mouse click text select in term windows

Minor nit/question -
When you click on text in the terminal window, it only selects up to a non-word character (i.e. it stops selecting at punctuation, so trying to click on Foo::Bar to select it all, it goes first to Foo (stopped by the ':') and then selects the entire line on the next click.
Most Linux flavors seem to go by whitespace - first click selects everything that is between whitespace, even if it includes non-alpha characters (thus you get Foo::Bar with one click); then the next click selects the whole line. Having gotten used to that, the Mac behavior is... annoying.
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I have actually found out what the issue is. I have called a javascript method onblur of the text element which is present in the suggest region. This onblur method is interfering with the mouse click event of the auto complete suggestions shown. If i remove the onblur method, everything is working fine. I have simulated the issue in the html file present in the compressed folder attached herwith. In that i am actually throwing an alert on blur where as in real scenario i have some other functionalities to be handled on blur.
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Lose of focus (mouse click/enter key)

Hello,
we have a problem customers are complaining about for quite a while now, but despite our efforts, we can not fix it or at least determine with certainty the problem cause.
We have an application launching forms apps, and from time-to-time we completely lose the focus on this form (generally after typing ENTER in a filter), I mean by focus, we cannot click anymore (cursor seems to stay on a object), we cannot press enter anymore (we get a 'Not defined key function') and so on...
I heard somewhere that it could be due to 'KEY-OTHERS' trigger not handling correctly the ENTER-KEY. But I need this trigger for my filters, or is there another way? KEY_ENTER does only navigate from field to another.
I found something which was able to remove focus lost (kind of a hack while trying to fix this on an on), but the problem is I had to remove this, because it blocks the opening of new windows or popups. It was a mouse-click trigger on forms triggers level:
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Best regards,
G.
EDIT: Forms 11g, and I am pretty sure we had not that much problems with 10g
EDIT2: I read the same kind of topics in the forum, but no patch seems to help
AND we use JRE 1.7....
Edited by: lakers on Jan 14, 2013 11:56 PM
Edited by: lakers on Jan 14, 2013 11:59 PM

this problem occurs with some of versions of JRE. Try with JRE JInitiator 1.3.1.22. Also unstalled all others JRE if exists.
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By default, whether deploying client/server or over the Web pressing the ENTER key takes the cursor to the next navigable item in the block. To override this default behavior it is necessary to modify the forms resource file to revise the key mapping details.
Modify fmrweb.res and change the Forms Function Number (FFN) from 27 to 75 for the Return Key. The line should be changed to the following:
10 : 0 : "Return" : 75 : "Return"
By default, the line is displayed with an FFN of 27 and looks as follows:
10 : 0 : "Return" : 27 : "Return"
This line should NOT fire the Key-Enter trigger since the Return or Enter key is actually returning the Return function represented by the FFN of 27. The FFN of 75 represents the Enter function and fires the Key-Enter trigger.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24269_01/doc.11120/e24477/configure.htm#i1077054
please mark correct/helpful if problem is solved..
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Activating a Window Without Focus

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I'm using LabVIEW 8.6, I would like to give an unusual behavior to a subVI window when opened: I'd like the window to be activated without giving focus to it. What I mean, is that I would like the window to be able to catch even on the front panel like keystroke or mouse click without giving focus to this window. I'd like the focus to stay on another window.
A good example of what I want to do is the microsoft visual keyboard installed with Windows: when the visual keyboard in open you can press any button without giving focus to the window. I'd like to reproduce the same behaviour with a labview window.
I don't think it's possible with properties or invoke node, I think there might be something to do with the use of user32.dll. If anyone as already done that, or knows how to do it, it would be great.
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I googled your question and I found some good information this MSDN forum, I think it may help you to apply it to your code.
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Using Photoshop CC 2014 on a Windows Tablet without a keyboard and mouse

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Fortunately I found a little touchkey utility on the web the lets you design your own touch keyboards. The can be transparent and you can even paint under them as long as you start the stroke outside the keyboard area. The keyboards can be toggles on and off so you can actually use Photoshop. The utility is small and requires not installation can be run form anywhere. I purchased a Surface Pro 3 a week ago. Its a full fledge PC. Through the home group I can access all machines in my house and using network shares I can access all files on my machines and the network drive on my router, I can print on my Epson 4800 printer. I can show slideshow on my HDTV via Bluetooth using a Microsoft wireless display adapter. I can plug in my Wacom Intuos Pro wireless receiver into the USB 3 port and use my Wacom tablet. Have a very touchy machine. Touch on the keyboard touch pad touch on the Display display and on the Wacom tablet. Could have touch on a mouse but I prefer the Microsoft comfort bluetooth mouse that has six buttons and a four way wheel.
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Automator - How do I: Mouse Click, Move Windows, and more

Hello,
I am attempting to create my own Automator programs and for a while I had some that worked nicely. I have recently been tweaking my iMac so that it can "think" on its own (by automator of course) and do things for me. However, I've run across a block with Mavericks (I believe it's due to Mavericks).
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2. How can I register a keyboard stroke? Same as above
3. How can I have automator move windows? I have two monitors and there are times when I may want it to move a window from one mintor to another
The following is a list of all the things I'm attempting to accomplish at the moment (with other things when I think of them) with automator (either through applications, folder actions, or ical actions):
1. Register a mouse click at a given area or on a given element in a safari page
2. Register a keyboard stroke in a given program (be able to focus on a program and then do the keystroke)
3. Move windows from one location to another
4. Full-screen and Un-full-screen iTunes at certain times of day
5. Download all purchased items on iTunes that aren't on the computer (sometimes iTunes doesn't download stuff if it was downloaded on my MacBook Pro first)
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I'll think of more of course, but the mouse click, keyboard stroke, and moving windows is the big thing I'm trying to figure out how to do. Can anyone help?
Also, I am not a computer tech. I am tinkering with this because it's fun and helpful, but an answer of "just use applescript" or "just use java" will likely just give me a headache. I know that it's going to be one of those codes, but I'm hoping someone has a "base" code that can be copied and pasted that's just a standard click that I can adjust for where I need to click and what process I need to click on.
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For example, to deal with mouse clicks, you can use the Automator Action Run Shell Script with this python script:
import sys
import time
from Quartz.CoreGraphics import *
def mouseEvent(type, posx, posy):
        theEvent = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(None, type, (posx,posy), kCGMouseButtonLeft)
        CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, theEvent)
def mousemove(posx,posy):
        mouseEvent(kCGEventMouseMoved, posx,posy);
def mouseclick(posx,posy):
        mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseDown, posx,posy);
        mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseUp, posx,posy);
ourEvent = CGEventCreate(None);
# Save current mouse position
currentpos=CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent);
# Click the "Apple"
mouseclick(25, 5);
# 1 second delay
time.sleep(1);
# Restore mouse position
mousemove(int(currentpos.x),int(currentpos.y))
It will look like this in Automator:
To drag something (i.e. a window, a file icon) from position 40,60 to 60,300:
import time
from Quartz.CoreGraphics import *
def mouseEvent(type, posx, posy):
           theEvent = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(None, type, (posx,posy), kCGMouseButtonLeft)
           CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, theEvent)
def mousemove(posx,posy):
           mouseEvent(kCGEventMouseMoved, posx,posy);
def mouseclickdn(posx,posy):
           mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseDown, posx,posy);
def mouseclickup(posx,posy):
           mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseUp, posx,posy);
def mousedrag(posx,posy):
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currentpos=CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent);
# move mouse to upper left of screen
mouseclickdn(40, 60);
# drag icon to new location
mousedrag(60, 300);
# release mouse
mouseclickup(60, 300);
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time.sleep(1);
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mouseclickdn(int(currentpos.x),int(currentpos.y));
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Form created with Forms version 6.0.8.8.0. Consists of a control block that has the toolbar buttons, a filter control block that contains item, and a data block. The filter control block and data block are on a tabbed canvas. There are 3 tabs with corresponding filter control block and data block on each.After the data block is queried, code sets the navigation to the control block with the go_item built-in. The user would use a mouse click on the filter control block on one of the tabs to activate an LOV, code is in a generic when-mouse-click trigger that will determine the item focus with the value in the system variable :system.cursor_block. Works for the first tab. Does not work for 2nd or 3rd tab. On-error trigger does not capture any error. Values for :system.cursor_block for tab 1 show that value before mouse click is 'control.detail' and after mouse click is 'filter.a'. For tabs 2 and 3 the value before mouse lick is 'control.detail' and after mouse click is 'control.detail' instead of 'fiter.b' or 'filter.c'. Verified that the 3 filter blocks are identical. Can anyone shed some light on this anomoly? I have been looking for this solution (many different iterations and changes to trap it) for too long.

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Two questions:
1) When choosing any mailto: or website link from a .chm, a
new window opens, as expected, but the TOC changes to "hidden."
When click anywhere in the Help window, the TOC shows. Going back
and forth from the message window/website and the help file, you
will see the behavior. Our QA flagged this as a potential issue.
Is this the expected behavior? Or, is there a setting to
prevent it from hiding? (I would like the Contents, Search, and
Index tabs to show when the .chm is first opened.) However, I don't
see the purpose of the Show/Hide being activated when changing
focus.
2) After opening a message window or web page from a .chm,
the Help window remains on top of the message window/web page. The
message window is indeed active for composing (is in focus), but it
is often necessary to reposition the help window (which is
annoyingly still on top of the new window) to be able to
compose--same with being able to see the full web page.
Again, is this expected? Is there a setting for having true
focus -- not always having the .chm stay on top but go behind when
you change focus to compose a message or view a web page that you
have initiated from the .chm?
Thank you very much for any tips you can suggest.
-- Anne Jackson
Sr. Technical Writer, SunGard
Ann Arbor, MI

Anne,
There is a setting for a window to be "top-most." I may not
be able to tell you how to get there in RH as I use an old version.
In the project settings, window definitions, find
properties/advanced/extended styles and be sure Top-most window is
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