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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Matt's new DME (Iconifying!)
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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 05:13:14 EST
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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
>...
>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
>...

	Yah, this is something that should be in intuition for V1.3 ... add
another system gadget (and associated NewWindow flag) for an 'iconify' 
gadget.  It shouldn't be to hard for C-A to integrate an iconify into the
window, since all you really have to do is fool around with the cliprects and
put them off the screen... sortof like a superbitmap window.  

	The program could then render into the window as if nothing had
ever happenned to it!  If you added associated IDCMP flags, the program could
modify the title (or whatever) of the window to the 'iconify' text and back
to normal again.  

	Using the original ICON is *not* going to work.  Not only is there
no way for the window to know what that ICON was, but there might not be
an ICON (CLI or SHELL driven), and in anycase this requires INTUITION to know
more about the workbench and the icon library (a definate NO-NO).

	The particular implementation I chose in DME.. using the right mouse 
button to iconify the window, obviously only works if you don't intend to
have menus in your program.  DME doesn't use menu's, so I saw a convenient
hole to stick the option in.

BTW Sorry about posting DME three times (now at version 1.22).  1.22's new
features are now stable enough that I can let it go for a couple of weeks
(I hope).  Also, there is an undocumented feature in DME 1.22 .... you
can do something like  DME a.c b.c c.c d.c ...  give multiple files, in
which case DME opens all the files in separate, smaller than normal windows,
and causes iconify to place the iconify windows in different places.

					-Matt