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From: bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: two new utilities on info server
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.155139.5999@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Feb 91 15:51:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: cl.1991Feb25.155139.5999
References: <1991Feb22.131230.1013@newcastle.ac.uk> <1836@tharr.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <1836@tharr.UUCP> gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal) writes:
>>  ... announcement of my (bdb's) !Sticky by ak...
>
>What I want of a background is that it behaves exactly like the icon bar, but
>an icon bar in two-d with active commands anywhere on it.  With this, you
>can also emulate the other kind of backdrop by having several !tinydirs
>scattered around.
>
Mine doesn't do this I am afraid, and I have never found one that does.
The problem is that you really have to BE the Wimp to do this, and even
then Acorn have made a serious mistake of saying in the user int guidelines
that menus from icon bar icons have to be at a constant height on the screen.
Ever tried changing the templates to the icon bar is movable, moving it to
the top of the screen, and then watching all the menus appear at the bottom?

Anyway, I am not sure that I actually want things to be actually running and
taking up memory anyway.

The !TinyDirs like solutions are best IMHO, and that is what all of these
Sticky backdrops are about, some with more or less functionality.

I recommend mine - it does everything !TinyDirs does, but in windows.
I tend to live with the data file for my main Sticky Window as a !tinyDir
on the icon bar, so I can open it whenever I want.

Its now grown larger than a standard screen though. Such is life.

Brian.Brunswick@uk.ac.cam.cl  Disclaimer.  Short sig rules!