[comp.sys.mac] window --> icon function?

fozzard@tigger.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard) (10/28/89)

Does anyone know of a INIT/CDEV or whatever to allow shrinking a
Mac window to an icon as is done in Windows/286 for the PC?

Heaven forbid that the PC should be able to do something the 
Mac cant!

please email responses to keep net traffic down...

thanks

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mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) (10/28/89)

In article <13280@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@tigger.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard) writes:
>Does anyone know of a INIT/CDEV or whatever to allow shrinking a
>Mac window to an icon as is done in Windows/286 for the PC?

Be patient.  I'm working on one.  There is a cdev called WindowChooser
which includes this capability but it has some problems.



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6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (10/28/89)

In article <36647@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) writes:
> In article <13280@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@tigger.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard) writes:

>>Does anyone know of a INIT/CDEV or whatever to allow shrinking a
>>Mac window to an icon as is done in Windows/286 for the PC?

> Be patient.  I'm working on one.

If you're doing it for the fun of it, go ahead.
If you're doing it to get the functionality, don't invest too much time
when I could just send you Alex's AltWDEF INIT.

> There is a cdev called WindowChooser
> which includes this capability but it has some problems.

Yeah, I know. Don't rub it in. :-)
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allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (10/29/89)

As quoted from <13280@boulder.Colorado.EDU> by fozzard@tigger.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard):
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| Does anyone know of a INIT/CDEV or whatever to allow shrinking a
| Mac window to an icon as is done in Windows/286 for the PC?
+---------------

AWinDef does this.  It installs a replacement WDEF which changes the grow box:
single-click it to shrink the window to an icon or double-click to zoom it.
It seems to work okay, although I've noticed that the cursor changes according
to the original window position and not the icon.  (I can stand that to un-
clutter my SE screen....)

I can send it to c.b.m if anyone wants it.  (Which reminds me:  I'm sending
the Cheq PS font to c.b.m this afternoon.)

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