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From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man)
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Subject: Re: Feeding a windows IDCMP port
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 20:31:45 EDT
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In article <277@mitsumi.UUCP> jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (James Mackraz) writes:
>PS: I thought of a possible pair of standard commands: GoQuiescent and FireUp.
>The former is a request that an application minimize its resources (close
>windows and the like), and the latter is a request to reappear and swing
>into action.  This gives simple "TSR" or pop-up "resident" programs without
>everybody monitoring the input food chain.
>-- 
>	Jim Mackraz

Yep. And while your at it, make the thing iconify itself when it goes
quiescent. Thus you ask the application to "get outta the way, but don't
die" and it turns into an icons *on the workbench screen*. Then to reactivate
you either double click it, or double click some project which has that
program as it's default tool. Then, if it's an editor, it loads that
project into another buffer, keeping the original stuff intact too.
I believe I've seen this performance in the X window system.
It's really needed since one often needs more screen space but would
like to either keep programs running, or actually make them quiescent,
*but* without losing the present state.
The only program I've seen which does something like this is UEDIT, but
it doesn't make an icon, it just makes a small window. It must
be possible to get an icon out there from in a program. I've managed to
drag all sorts of things out there manually.
                                               Ralph.

PS: Commodore-Amiga ! Fix Da Workbench ! Drawers open too slow ! Please ?
(I'm slowly going crazy, but I won't go back to typing commands...
  computers ought to be *FUN* !).