Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: When you wish upon a star...
Message-ID: <4325@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 20:17:15 GMT
References: <1307@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <1307@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>	2) Make workbench more useful: let people drag windows partly off the
>	   screen. I can't think of any good reason to prevent this: almost

This one I have to disagree with. Consider:

- you can do it with morerows (perhaps you mean add an option for a morerowed
screen in Preferences? That one I could like.)
- this would eat some chip memory, which is already in short supply for some
applications
- if it was done with morerows, a lot of windows would open to the full size
of the window (partially off the screen)
- windows that move around by themselves (eg the MCLI that WordPerfect does)
or change their own size (eg DME windows when iconifying) or even just small
windows could easily get lost off the edges of the screen. This one worries me
the most as far as novice users are concerned, since I've seen many "lost"
windows under morerows with a non-adjusted monitor and I'm uncomfortable with
yet another feature to which a warning must be attached, "Don't do this unless
you know what you're doing". Trust me, it's very confusing to someone who wants
their computer easy to use to have to memorize a lot of caveats.

Now, to be open minded:

What sort of size limitations are imposed upon Mac windows? The way to code
Peter's suggestion, it would seem to me, would be to prevent prevent the window
from being moved partially off the screen unless

Window->MinHeight > Screen->Bottom_Hidden_Area	&&
Window->MinWidth > Screen->Right_Hidden_Area + CLOSEGADGETWIDTH

so you would be guaranteed that at least part of the drag bar would always
be accessible.

John
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