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From: SLMYQ@USU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Moving windows between screens (another suggestion)
Message-ID: <8805150243.AA18494@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 May 88 02:39:00 GMT
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Have a special flag in the Screen (and NewScreen) structure which tells
Intuition, "other guys can put windows on my screen".  Then make some
way that the user can move "special" windows (with a special flag)
between screens which have this capability.  If an application decides
to close its screen, and somebody else's windows are still on it,
Intuition just sends a CLOSEWINDOW message, maybe along with a flag
which tells exacly what happened.  Or maybe it just moves the window
back to the Workbench screen.

Anyway, that would take care of a major inconvenience.  I'd like to be
able to bring up a calculator or another utility on ANY screen.

Also, I was just reading somebody's (can't remember the name) article
on AREXX "button boxes".  Since I don't have AREXX, I don't really
understand the details, but I see the general idea.  With this
barrier removed, button boxes might be put into windows and moved
between screens easily.

Anyway, some ideas to munch on...

                                Bryan Ford (SLMYQ@USU.BITNET)