Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Some Intuition/Graphics questions Message-ID: <1991Feb2.194853.27355@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 2 Feb 91 19:48:53 GMT References: <1991Jan20.022627.13975@cs.dal.ca> <7625@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 40 peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > A plea for sanity... > chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes: >> If you use the default 80 column font on a high res screen, you'll >> have to open a borderless window as wide as the screen to fit all 80 >> on one line. > *IF* you do this, *please* let it be a selectable option. It takes a > small amount of overscan to display a full-sized window with borders, > there are plenty of utilities to do this in 1.3 (hell, I wrote one... > all you need to do is write a prefs structure), and finally it's fully > supported in 2.0. But while we're on the subject, sort of: I'd really like a resizing gadget that could be used for a borderless window with the following characteristics: * Does _not_ disable a strip up the side or across the bottom from being used for display surface. * Is invisible when not selected. * Can be drawn over when not selected. * Is inverse video when selected, so that it doesn't destroy data "under" itself. I'm not sure if that is very clear, but I'd like it to draw itself with and XOR and remove itself the same way, and in general not intrude at all when not in use. Does any such animal exist? (Naturally the idea generalizes to all the border gadgets.) Kent, the man from xanth.