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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
Keywords: Horror Window Depth 1.4
Message-ID: <4715@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 17:58:28 GMT
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In article <2940@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (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.]

)	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.

One extra click without moving, in pathological situations?  Can live
with that.

And of course, in many other situations, what happens is the user clicks
on the wrong gadget and spends many mouse clicks getting through the
other windows to go fetch it.

We'll see how it all works and respond ...

	jimm
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