Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yet Another God Damm 1.4 Suggestion: Message-ID: Date: 29 May 89 18:18:07 GMT References: <2459@wpi.wpi.edu> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: <2459@wpi.wpi.edu> > Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 26-May-89 Yet Another God Damm 1.4 > Su.. John F Stoffel@wpi.wpi.e (1567) > 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. Yeah, the Macintosh lets you do that too. > There are several problems/assumptions > you have to make about this scheme. No, not really. The entire matter is identical to having a window partially obscured by another window on the display. In this case the "other window" is the non-existent area past the edge of the display. It should be pretty painless to implement. > 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? The Macintosh does not let you move a window off the display so that it cannot be grabbed with the mouse and moved back. So, you can move the window almost all the way off the screen on the left,right or bottom, but only to the edge of the window's titlebar off the top. The Mac doesn't let the mouse move off the screen, except if you have more than one screen (where the Desktop becomes the union of all the active display devices). I do hope Intuition for V1.4 allows windows to be moved off-screen, as well as providing Iconify and Zoom gadgets as a standard feature. -- Michael Portuesi * Carnegie Mellon University INTERNET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu * BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ MAIL: Carnegie Mellon University, P.O. Box 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213