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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: iconification
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 17:22:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 17:22:47 1987
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In article <1200@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>Wait -- stop, hold it a second.  There is a fundamental difference
>between the kind of icon that Mr. Witbrock refers to and the standard
>Amiga-type icon.
>The X iconification represents a running program, the Workbench icon
>represents a file on disk.
 
Oops -- yes, sorry, I missed the point about typing into the "icon".

>Clicking on it again snaps the window back to full size.  After using
>this scheme, I wish Intuition had supported iconification as one of
>its standard features.

Are depth-arrangers all that bad, really?  I don't think of stacked
windows as "hogging" screen space.

Gee, I dunno.  Though I haven't ever used these miniwindows, it sounds
kind of gimmicky to me.  Sounds like a can of worms really.  How big is
the icon?  Where does it go?  Does it still have normal-but-tiny gadgets
in it?  Do you try to click in the miniwindow and have the click mapped
back into an "original"-size coordinate?  Do you have to intercept all
color graphics calls so you can render them with appropriate averaging
into the mini?  You want there to be a standard for all of this?  Maybe
for 1-plane text applications, but it's hard to see it retrofit to just
any existing application.

What you might want to do is supply a library of iconify-related
routines, define a message-type or two, and maybe a new gadget or two.
Then one could write one's (new) applications to say exactly how
minification is to be handled.

>I don't know if such a thing is possible, but if it is I would like to
>see it happen.  Maybe this would be a good suggestion for something to
>build into 1.3 (CATS, *please* take note).
>Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department

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