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From: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: init idea
Keywords: "Hide" box
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.181859.27564@uswmrg2.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:18:59 GMT
References: <3795@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin)
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Organization: US West Marketing Resources Group, Aurora CO.
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In article <3795@rodan.acs.syr.edu> fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Phred Dushin) writes:
>I have an idea for an init.  Could someone please make remarks about the
>feasability of it, or tell me whether it has already been implemented?
>
>Since the + and SE screens are low on real estate, and since the region
>occupied by the screen is a mere fraction of the graphable regions
>on the macintosh ( (32767*2)^2 ), 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.  That could free up
>a lot of space for those of us who have been left in the dark ages
>of the 9" monochrome monitor.  It could even look like this:

Good idea, but this brings up another question (directed towards the
Apple DTS folks): when is Apple going to release a "Real" version of the
system with the 'Set Aside...' option in Multifinder?  I find this feature
very useful on my large screen Mac.  Will we see a System 6.0.? with
this feature?
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