Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 89 19:24:18 GMT References: <5228@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <4341@sugar.hackercorp.com> <126138@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4696@amiga.UUCP> <19529@ut-emx.UUCP> <4703@amiga.UUCP>, <2940@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: <2940@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > In article <4703@amiga.UUCP> jimm@batgirl.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes: > > [This is why you need only 1 depth gadget, not 2.] > ... > 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. You do need one more click-- but clicking twice instead of once is SO EASY, that it makes little difference. In fact, I would bet that it's easier to do this than decide which of the two existing front<->back gadgets to click on. I know I'm always forgetting which one is which... -Miles