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From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Subject: Re: IntuiIdeas
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 21:38:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 21:38:34 1987
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Keywords: Some suggestions for intuition.

In article <2873@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green) writes:
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>2) Force CloseScreen() to close any windows open in its screen.  

Right on. Maybe in the far future, even a way to automatically move windows 
between screens - my terminal program's screen is closing, so it switches
my clock and editor windows back onto the Workbench screen (all screens same
dimension and depth of course) and sends them an IDCMP NEWSCREEN message (which
they can safely ignore if they want to, or maybe ToFront or ToBack themselves).
This assumes a system-sanctioned method of getting those extra windows there
in the first place tho'.

What about putting an option into programs to let you specify the screen
name it should open the window on, and then not telling anyone about it until 
Intuition handled CloseScreen() correctly (1/2 :-) ?

>3) Have a DEPTH parameter for OpenWindow calls.  This would break
>code, but bear with me...  I have an application that opens a 4 bitplane
>interlaced screen.  On this screen are 4 windows.  One is a drawing
>window and needs the color.  The other three, however, are just text
>windows and only need to be one bitplane (eg black/white) deep.

Have you thought of opening an interlaced deep screen from 0,0 to 640,300 and a
mono (possibly noninterlaced) screen from 0,301 to 640,400? That's assuming 
you don't need to do major resizing and dragging. Otherwise I imagine the
Layers library has these things... if not, what advantages does it offer over
the window functions?

John
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