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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Another wish for 1.3
Message-ID: <1003@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 18:11:42 EST
Article-I.D.: sugar.1003
Posted: Sat Nov  7 18:11:42 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Nov-87 05:19:31 EST
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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On the Macintosh you can drag a window off the screen. To be precise, you can
drag it down and to the left or right until at least part of the window is
no longer on the screen.

Is there any good (i.e. something other than "we didn't think of it, and we
don't want to") reason this cannot be implemented in a future version of
Intuition? It shouldn't require much work, unless the whole windowing setup
is more twisted than I thought. After all as far as the window is concerned
it should be just like dragging it down behind a couple of other windows.

This would significantly improve the usability of the workbench, as all of a
sudden you wouldn't have to worry about programs like Preferences and IconEd
that open up a non-sizable 640x200 window on the workbench. It would also
give you a way to take care of the infamous SizeWindow problem:

 "This routine does no error-checking.  If your  delta  values specify
 some far corner of the universe, Intuition will attempt to size your
 window to that far corner. Because of the distortions in the space -
 time continuum that can result from this, as  predicted by special relativity
 the result is generally not desirable." (RKM II A-165 SizeWindow)

It'd improve MoveWindow as well.
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-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
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