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From: Thomas.Farmer@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Menubar Task Switching
Keywords: (I hope my last attempt didn't get posted, if so, I apologise)
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.214529.234@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 90 03:45:29 GMT
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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
Sender: Thomas.Farmer@actrix.gen.nz (Thomas Farmer)
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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...
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