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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Moving windows between screens (another suggestion)
Summary: It's been done.
Message-ID: <5969@well.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 22:38:15 GMT
References: <8805150243.AA18494@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: onhigh!oracle
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In article <8805150243.AA18494@jade.berkeley.edu> SLMYQ@USU.BITNET writes:
>Have a special flag in the Screen (and NewScreen) structure which tells
>Intuition, "other guys can put windows on my screen".

	Willy Langeveld recently posted to BIX a method of doing this.  He
called them PublicScreens.  It's being discussed, and people are poking
holes in his approach.  (I'm going to regret this, but) If there's
sufficient demand, I'll re-post his approach for PublicScreens here.  I
don't think Willy has access to the Net.

	Actually, I owe Willy a favor, anyway; he got me a (temporary) free
account on BIX.

>Then make some
>way that the user can move "special" windows (with a special flag)
>between screens which have this capability.  [ ... ]

	Willy's goodie doesn't do that.

>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.
>
	This evidently was Willy's motiviation for writing the PublicScreen
handler.

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