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From: mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Mitchell - QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 wish - readable window titles
Message-ID: <7755@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 17:51:23 GMT
References: <838@abvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Mitchell - QA)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <838@abvax.UUCP> set@calvin () writes:
>
>Currently, unselected windows have their title "ghosted", like a disabled
>gadget image.  I find these titles a bit hard to read.  This is fine for
>applications which have only one window - if it's ghosted you're not going
>to get input sent to that application.  The problem is with multiple-window
>applications (which have probably opened their own screen)  The extra windows
>present different "views" of application activity, and many times the
>application will take input from any window, not just the selected one.
>
>some form (complemented, reverse-video, etc) and unselected windows retain
>a readable (non-ghosted) title.  This is probably late for 1.4, and I bet
>it would change Intuition rather than 1.4's Workbench modifications, but
>it seems to me to be an improvement.
>
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>Scott Townsend			   ...!{cwjcc,decvax,pyramid,uunet}!abvax!set

Actually, the application can control the title bar by refreshing it when it 
receives an INACTIVEWINDOW message. So it would be up to the application
to do that!
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