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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Screens beyond 640x200
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 02:20:18 EDT
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	I have been fooling around with custom screens... seeing how big a
screen I could create within the confines of my monitor.  I had one big
disappointment:  It would seem that you can't move the mouse past the 
logical right border of the screen (640) or below the logical bottom border
(200), even when your screen is 660 x 230 (or something similar).  I'm 
talking about the created screen (OpenScreen()), NOT the physical monitor.
It seems logical to me, and completely compatible with everything that exists
so far.

	There are also advantages to having 'defaults' for window max
width/height (etc.... make it '-1'), so one doesn't need to worry whether
he's on a PAL amiga, or U.S. amiga, and to allow those of us who will soon
be getting hi-grade monitors.

	I realize that many of you are probably intending to flame me on
this message (along the lines that if people start writing programs with
larger screens, things may become incompatible), so I would like to point
out that everything I have mentioned so far would make nothing incompatible.

Take the scenerio of the standard applications program with resizable 
windows.  The programmer simply uses '-1' to specify the 'default'
width, height, etc.... and the program immediately satisfies everybody from
the simple user (w/normal screen), to the sophisticated hacker who has 
connected up a 704x262 monitor and changed those defaults to match.  Since
most applications programs must dynamically allow for any size window/screen,
it would not be any harder in terms of programming.

Of course, some programs, such as games would probably have absolute unsizable
screens, but that's ok by me.... the slightly larger screen area would not
normally make a game more playable, and not all the sprites work with larger
display areas anyway.  but for something like word-processing, I would
be a lot happier with an 85 col x 28 row NON-INTERLACE window (including
all the gadgets)


Q: Is it possible to re-open the workbench screen with a larger display
area?? 

					-Matt