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From: john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Yet Another God Damm 1.4 Suggestion:
Keywords: 1.4, windows, refresh, wish
Message-ID: <2459@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 26 May 89 18:07:32 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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	DEC has a really neat way of playing with windows on their
workstations.  When you click and drag a window around on the screen,
you can move the window so parts of it go off the edge of the screen.
This is analagous to moving SCREENS up and down with AmigaDOS right
now, but I woyuld like to see it applied to windows.  This would be
great for the workbench, especially when you have four to ten windows
open and you want to have a peek at what is visible on the workbench
in terms of Icons and such.  There are several problems/assumptions
you have to make about this scheme.

1) Does the window take up RAM when it is off the screen.  i.e. does
the Amiga continue to treat the screen as "normal" and just not
display the parts that aren't visible, or should it ignore the parts
out of view totally.

2) How is refresh handled?  If I drag a window off to the side, go do
some work on another window, then drag the first window back, what
happens.  Does the window come on back as just the visible corner
until you release it and it refreshes, or is it continually refreshed
(only the border is really needed) as it becomes more visible.

3) Which directions can you move a window off the screen?  All four?
Or just left, right, down?  Can the mouse move off the screen too?

4) What do other people think?


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