Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!gitpyr!rodney From: rodney@pyr.gatech.EDU (Rodney Ricks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ban the Cloud! (plus sugg. for Workbench) (long) Message-ID: <5139@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 88 02:22:47 GMT References: <318@jc3b21.UUCP> Reply-To: rodney@pyr.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Lines: 42 Keywords: workbench multitask suggestion Summary: Workbench SHOULD multitask, and here is how... I haven't been on the net for a couple of weeks, so excuse me if this has already been said, but... I believe Workbench SHOULD multitask. It is irritating to go into info from the workbench menu, and click the screen to the back, and not be able to see what was under it! On the subject of multitasking in reading in icons from disk, Workbench should multitask, but it should not schedule the tasks in a traditional sense. The tasks should be scheduled LIFO, as an extension on some of the more modern file requesters, i.e. as the disk icons are coming up on the screen, when the one that the user wants comes up (for example, a drawer), then the user should be able to double click on it. Workbench should then stop reading the current drawer, and open the window for, and read in icons for the new drawer. Then the user could select the program to run (as icons are still coming up). Workbench should have the system load and start the program, then return to reading icons from the the chosen drawer, then from the original when that one is done. How does that sound? Oh, by the way, I just remembered a peculiarity about Workbench that I found a LONG time ago, and meant to post, but never did. Try this from Workbench: double-click on a disk with icons in its drawer, and move it the window from where it originally opened. Run loadwb again from the CLI. Double-click on the same disk icon, to open the window. Activate something in one window, then (before Workbench "recovers" from the previous action), activate something (maybe the same thing) in its duplicate. The result is simply workbench mulitasking with itself. (A copy of itself, that is.) And if you like my idea, I have a LONG list of suggestions for improvements to my favorite computer that I will post soon. Don't you feel lucky! :-) Disclaimer: I speak for myself, and myself only. Rodney Ricks UUCP: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!rodney or : !gatech!gt-oscar!rodney Mail: 4265 Hidden Valley Dr. College Park, Ga. 30349