peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (11/08/87)
On the Macintosh you can drag a window off the screen. To be precise, you can drag it down and to the left or right until at least part of the window is no longer on the screen. Is there any good (i.e. something other than "we didn't think of it, and we don't want to") reason this cannot be implemented in a future version of Intuition? It shouldn't require much work, unless the whole windowing setup is more twisted than I thought. After all as far as the window is concerned it should be just like dragging it down behind a couple of other windows. This would significantly improve the usability of the workbench, as all of a sudden you wouldn't have to worry about programs like Preferences and IconEd that open up a non-sizable 640x200 window on the workbench. It would also give you a way to take care of the infamous SizeWindow problem: "This routine does no error-checking. If your delta values specify some far corner of the universe, Intuition will attempt to size your window to that far corner. Because of the distortions in the space - time continuum that can result from this, as predicted by special relativity the result is generally not desirable." (RKM II A-165 SizeWindow) It'd improve MoveWindow as well. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) (11/12/87)
How about having a gadget on a window that you could click and the window would shrink to a small icon, and if the icon were clicked it would revert to its original state. This could be used even with windows that do not allow resizing. BTW, any rumors/facts when 1.3 might be released? Is it in alpha or beta yet? -- Dave Bakken Boeing Commercial Airplane Company uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken Disclaimer: These views are my own, not my employers.
spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) (11/14/87)
In article <1003@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >On the Macintosh you can drag a window off the screen. To be precise, you can >drag it down and to the left or right until at least part of the window is >no longer on the screen. > >Is there any good (i.e. something other than "we didn't think of it, and we >don't want to") reason this cannot be implemented in a future version of >Intuition? This would be useful if we are ever going to get High Resolution monitors that are additions to the Amiga monitor. I can't actually see getting rid of the Amiga Monitor. Not that there isn't a way to get rid of it like there isn't on the Mac, it's just that I want to have windows and screens open on the Amiga monitor, and if they are compatible I can drag them onto the higher resolution monitor. I just don't see a way to support HAM mode in a 1K x 1K monochrome monitor. So far all the solutions that we have seen have been in place of the Amiga monitor, but that seems too much like the Atari (or Arati for you Hastings fans). >-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) (11/17/87)
Here's another item for a 1.3 wishlist. I would like to be able to set a tool's priority from the WorkBench, like you can set its stack. This would be useful to set Sculpt-3d to -1, a term program to +1, etc. Any thoughts on this? While we're at it, how about being able to type 'run foo STACK 1000 PRI 5' from cli? this would avoid changetaskpri 5 stack 1000 run foo stack 4000 changetaskpri 0 (yes, I've renamed changetaskpri to task!) Eric Kennedy