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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
Keywords: Horror Window Depth 1.4
Message-ID: <2940@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 15 Oct 89 15:35:13 GMT
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In article <4703@amiga.UUCP> jimm@batgirl.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
> [This is why you need only 1 depth gadget, not 2.]
>If you click the depth gadget, the window comes to the front if
>it is not already.  If you click it when the window is in front, it goes
>to the back.  People like little new habits.  There might be a change
>replacing the phrase "already in front" to "unobscured."

	Did you realize that this method is not as powerful as the 2-gadget
method (window-to-front, window-to-back gadgets)?  Windows that are
"sandwiched" between two other windows will require extra clicks for the
user to manipulate them.  Here's a sample scenario to demonstrate this.

	Picture three stacked windows, labelled 1, 2, and 3.  1 is on top of
2, and 2 is on top of 3.  Window 1 covers exactly the left half of the
screen.  Window 2 covers the entire screen.  Window 3 covers exactly the
right half of the screen.
	The object is to display window 3, which is totally obscured by
window 2.

	With the one-gadget system, what must you do?  Well, you can't click
on window 3 at all, so you click window 2's gadget.  Since window 2 is not
in front (window 1 is), it comes to the front.  Now click window 2 again
to send it to the back, thereby displaying window 3.

	With the two-gadget system, you just click window 2's "back" gadget,
displaying window 3.

                                                        Dan

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