[Sperry]

Greetings!

Say I'm in Safari. I post to my favorite forum, "Ice Cream & You".

I hit Command Shift :

I check my spelling, then want to go back to my text box.

The Spell Check is an Applet, so when I hit Command W, not my top-most window closes, the applet, but the top-most window in the currently-running program, Safari, closes. So my text box dissappears, as if it never existed.

Does ANYONE know the keyboard command to close the Spell Check applet?

BTW, this stumped the Genius guys at the local apple Store in Suburban Square, Ardmore, PA.

Thanks, all.

Thanks to ZipperZap for the link to this site.

[TETENAL]

The spell-checker window is not an "applet". What you see is a floating window, but it is a service that runs in the same process as Safari. I tested it and when that window has keyboard focus (title bar is highlighted and the throbbing button is visible) then Command-W does close the spellchecker window for me.

[cybergoober]

If the window has focus, the escape key will close it as well.

[Sperry]

The window is always grey, and the buttons do not light up until the cursor is over them.

Is there a way to give the floating window "Focus"?

I tested it several ways, and only ended up closing my MacNN tghread ...

[Chuckit]

If you click on the window's title bar, it will have focus.

[Sperry]

BINGO!!!!!

Thanks, guys.

[Sperry]

One question ... It is not an applet [which I don't know a thing about].

It is stated as a service running in the Safari Application [in this case], and what I have done is called up an additional service [or "feature"] of safari?

Which is why the ?title bar¿, the top-most bar that always says Safari [usually] stays the same when the Spell-Check is operating?

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Sperry

It is stated as a service running in the Safari Application [in this case], and what I have done is called up an additional service [or "feature"] of safari?

That is correct.

Originally Posted by Sperry

Which is why the ?title bar¿, the top-most bar that always says Safari [usually] stays the same when the Spell-Check is operating?

Basically that is right. For the spell-checker, the font-picker and the colour-picker that is true. They are running within the process of the application. The character-palette on the other hand runs as a separate process. That one you could call an "applet" if you wanted so.
But that's a technicality. I was just correcting you on the use of the word "applet" for nitpicking's sake.

[chabig]

I just let it check the spelling while I type...much easier for me.

Chris

[Sperry]

I prefer nitpicking over vague answers, since vague answers indicates a lack of knowledge.

In class, I asked the instructor how much pressure was in a feed line of an AC compressor [residential]. I was berated by the class, but if one if two hundred customers happens to ask me the question, it could mean a commission of several hundred dollars versus no sale.