Set focus to next window on close?

[paulisme]

Hi everyone. I just bought my first Mac a few weeks ago and am so far quite enamored with it. Coming from Windows, there are a lot of new things I'm getting used to, which I have no problem with since I see many of them as improvements. One thing I dislike about OS X though is that when I close a window, the next open window doesn't receive focus. I've also noticed that when I'm using a program with multiple windows, like GIMP, that I have to click a window once to focus (if the window doesn't already have focus), then again to take whatever action I wanted to take. For example, if I have GIMP open and I'm making a selection in the image I'm editing, then I want to select a tool from the toolbox window, I must click the toolbox window once to focus on it, then click the button in the toolbox. Is there any way to change this behavior?