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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: init idea
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Date: 5 Jul 90 22:25:39 GMT
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In article <3795@rodan.acs.syr.edu> fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Phred 
Dushin) writes:
> why not create a "hide" box for
> each window, which moves a given window into a far off region of
> the mac drawing space.  The window could effectively be left open
> (in case any window needs to catch any information coming in), and it
> could easily be retrieved, say, by a menucommand.

System 7.0 will allow an application's windows to be "hidden", allowing 
easier access to other app's windows. It doesn't allow you to hide some of 
an app's windows while leaving others. However, most apps in which 
multiple windows are especially useful include some window-management menu 
items; so most of the bases will be covered.

You can get a similar effect by moving a window *almost* all the way off 
screen. Grab it at an edge of the title bar, and you can leave only a few 
pixel's worth of edge visible. Make it the right edge, and you can get it 
back just by clicking what's left of the zoom box.

Another trick I've used is to tile the screen with little windows, and 
just zoom up the one I want to work in now. Zoom it back down and now I 
can see all of them again.

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