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Focus bugs can kill a man. (Or at least a program.)

A lot has happened on the Compass front these last two days. Maximized windows are now handled correctly. Compass now runs correctly on Win98 (and by association, hopefully ME as well). I also modified the way windows are shown to construct a new, meaningful, z- order list. This led to many beautiful and stunning bugs relating to the way windows interprets HWND_TOPMOST windows in the zorder.

All fixed now.

*I hope.*

I started putzing around with snap-to windows. Looks like it'll be fairly straightforward, but I might pass this feature up for now in favor of Hotkey support or mouse- moving.

Being sick sucks.

<sneeze>

Diaries have always intimidated me. Maybe it's the persistent commitment, always bugging you for attention. Or perhaps it's the guilt of having failed every other diary in the past. What next -- diary jealousy?

Ted and I sketched out a battle plan for dividing up the remaining tasks on Compass's initial to-do list. These include fixing some of the initial bugs (admittedly rare, and non-fatal) we've seen in the Window multiplexing algorithm, a snap-to feature on the pager windows, and a couple of issues with Z-Order. Hopefully, I'll be able to tackle these tonight or tomorrow. On a side note, it's fairly exciting to see the program reach that "useable state"!

I'm also going to try to do some searching to determine why we're experiencing issues when running under Windows [95|98|ME]. There are times when the Win32 can be slightly frustrating. :(

Who knows, if I get these accomplished, you might see a first beta (alpha?) release later on this week!