Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans) (03/15/91)
There are new versions of 'sticky' and 'largeness' on the infoserver. !Sticky has only minor bug fixes. !Largeness 1.06 An application to allow an infinite logical screen, by scrolling windows in the opposite direction when the mouse runs off the edge. It uses a patch module that forces windows to be opened with the no bounds bit set, so that they may move off screen. ** Now features a scale view window with dragging and clicking to front/back of windows via their images. Instant drags even! Drag on background to move everything. To retrieve a file from the archive, send a message to info-server@newcastle.ac.uk with the following content: line-limit 1000 request: sources topic: archimedes filename request: end where filename is replaced by the name of the file that you want. A filename of 'index' will send you the latest index file. JANET: Albert.Koelmans@uk.ac.newcastle UUCP: ...!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!Albert.Koelmans Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK (telephone +44 091-2228155,fax 2228232)
pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) (03/18/91)
In article <1991Mar15.130040.24054@newcastle.ac.uk> Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans) writes: >There are new versions of 'sticky' and 'largeness' on the infoserver. > >** Now features a scale view window with dragging and clicking to front/back >of windows via their images. Instant drags even! Drag on background to move >everything. And very nice it is too! Only a couple of gripes: * on a couple of occasions, !Largeness has wanted to move the icon bar. This is not nice :-) * scrolling the iconbar becomes very difficult if you move the pointer just that little bit too close to the edge of the screen --Fil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Colmer, OA Project Leader, Acorn Computers Ltd (pcolmer@acorn.co.uk)
bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick) (03/20/91)
In article <5897@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes: commenting about my !Largeness app > >And very nice it is too! Only a couple of gripes: Thanks for the appreciation! > >* on a couple of occasions, !Largeness has wanted to move the icon bar. This > is not nice :-) (Some of this is discussed in the !Help file bit about bugs - I recommend reading that) You are in acorn, so are probably running bits of a new riscos, which I'm told has a pull icon bar to front feature - Was it due to this? If someone has a foolproof way of telling that a window is the icon bar a check can be put in - but it shows up as a standard window handle, so if it gets in front of backdrop windows this is difficult to avoid. Perhaps I should check for size and position, as I do for grab keys, but this will nobble people who have changed their templates. I would expect the same problem with !Madness. (In general, I would expect it to move only when it shows up on the mini-view) What happens to messages sent to the icon bar - which task do they go to, which one is moving it, can it be discouraged from doing this? The grab keys window for the task manager is another irritation that appears from time to time, also. Perhaps there should be a particular task that owns the icon bar, and gets sent messages to add icons by the wimp. This could then use it as a grab keys window to avoid the extra window overhead and loss of a window handle. > >* scrolling the iconbar becomes very difficult if you move the pointer just > that little bit too close to the edge of the screen Errr... yes. I can't really see any way around that one. Zoom box behaviour is even sadder. Try !Edit and a large file. I'd also like a better way to do what the patch module does - perhaps in acorn you can exert some influence to make this sort of thing cleaner - an omnidirectional no bounds configure bit? Brian.Brunswick@uk.ac.cam.cl Disclaimer. Short sig rules!