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From: dpz@paul.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Matt's new DME (Iconifying!)
Message-ID: <331@john.paul.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 22:44:26 EST
Article-I.D.: john.331
Posted: Thu Apr  2 22:44:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 18:20:17 EST
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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He has implemented a feature that Amiga programmers should sit up and
take notice of, namely the ability to iconify the window into a one
line window.  This has got to be one of the handiest features that
anyone can put in a program in a desktop-type environment like the
Amiga WorkBench, Sun SunWindows, or Macintosh Finder.  The reasons are
obvious, the most prevalent being an easier organization and
management of the desktop environment.

Now, I can draw an argument over the way it was implemented, but that
is a side issue.  I doubt most programs would use the right button to
iconify/deiconify anyway :-).  Probably a gadget is the most
logical/elegant way to handle it, maybe just to the left of the
"shove-window-to-back" gadget.  What to iconify to?  Well, not to just
a single line that says the filename being edited (but I can't fault
Matt for this, being the first person to be doing this).  Possibly a
two-liner, program name and filename.  Or just the program name (maybe
the actual icon picture?).  Or the program name, filename, and my name
:-).

Comments?

					dpz
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