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From: hwr@pilhuhn.uucp (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Menubar Task Switching
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Date: 27 Nov 90 00:17:13 GMT
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In article <5797.274ed910@cerritos.edu>, Thomas Farmer writes:

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>   Project for the week.
>
>   It can be annoying to have to flip through lots of screens looking
>Message-ID: <1990Nov24.051751.7428@actrix.gen.nz>
>Date: 24 Nov 90 05:17:51 GMT
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>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.
>
>   I think this would be quite good...although the user would have to
>create icons for each program they were running. (Some of us enjoy doing
>this anyway!!!)
>
>   However, unlike mutlifinder (brain dead multitasking) I think it
>would be better to have the icons in a row, rather than on top of each
>other.
>
>   Has anyone done a program to do this? Can it be done? Is anyone
>working on something along these lines?
>
>   Ciao...
>--
I don't know if that's possible, but why not, but what do you do
with windows, that cover the menubar or programms, that hide
menubar (is possible with workbench!).

_flame on_

Why do you post this about 10 times do you think more people are
listenig and starting to compute ?

_flame off_


-Heiko


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