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From: twills@amiga.actrix.gen.nz (Tony Wills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Menubar Task Switching
Message-ID: <4629.tnews@amiga.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 25 Nov 90 03:32:11 GMT
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Organization: NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from - Thomas.Farmer@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (Thomas Farmer):

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>    It can be annoying to have to flip through lots of screens looking
> for the program you want to get too... This is especially true when the
> number of programs you are running at any one time exceeds about four...
...
>    I was thinking that it would be a nice to have a better way to go
> straight to a screen. Now I know there is one program wjhich allows you
> to select from a menu, but I though it could be better to partly copy an
> idea from multifinder...
>    
>    Would it be possible for each program that is running it's own screen
> to put a small icon up on the Workbench menu bar. Then, to change
> programs you would just select the appropriate icon.

Firstly do you have one of these nice resident do everything popup programs
that allows you to cycle through screens using Amiga-N or Amiga-M, rather
than the rather useless Workbench to back/front using those keys?
I find it works well like that.

Second, if you're running lots of programs that that use full screens,
won't you really want those icons on all screens, or are you assuming
that the Amiga-N/M combo is there to get you back to the WB first, from
where you flip off to the screen you actually want.  (ie put hands to key-
board to hit Amiga-N, then back to mouse to select screen icon?).

Third, I presume you are really talking about *screens* and not windows,
those other GUIs don't have a concept of logical screens like intuition.
Perhaps you really want icons to flip between windows?  Thats a different
kettle of AmigaLibDisks.
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