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Subject: Re: "Real Drag" INIT
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Date: 6 Mar 91 00:38:28 GMT
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tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd A. Green) writes:

{stuff deleted here so you don't have to read it again...}

>I got the INIT and thought it was an interesting concept for a program
>that I had thought of doing myself. My main gripe is that is does not
>keep track of the pixels that the windows get's dragged over. That is
>to say if you should drag your window over your trash icon the trash
>icon gets erased and is not redrawn.

>Not having the source I cannot comment on how it was written, but I
>would have kept an image of the screen in an offscreen buffer and
>would not have only updated the dragged window but also the area in
>which it was before it was dragged.  While this would cause the update
>region to increase in size and thus slow down the "animation" it would
>be more aesthetically pleasing.

>Todd
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So DO it, 'cyberwolf'.


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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |    you must first understand recursion.
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