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From: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench features
Keywords: screens
Message-ID: <677@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 14:50:54 GMT
References: <4273@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <4273@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer) writes:
>I've noticed that several programs that open custom screens don't provide
>screen depth rearrangement.  An example of this would be the "Shanghai"
>game.  Not only has it no screen depth rearrangement gadget, it traps the
>right mouse button that could normally be used to slide its screen down.
>Only the Workbench-to-front and Workbench-to-back keys (Amiga-N/Amiga-M)
>are effective on the Shanghai screen, and then only as long as there is
>no other custom screen in existence.  Any additional custom screens become
>unavailable; the only choice is between the WB and the Shanghai screens.
>
>To cope with situations like this, I wonder if it would be worthwhile
>to redefine the Workbench's screen-depth gadget to bring up a "which of
>these screens would you like brought to the fore?" requester, with the
>available screens listed by name (if present) or task number in some sort
>of menu fashion?
>

The obvious solution is making the (Amiga-N/Amiga-M) keys more functional;      
allowing you to flip through all the screens.  I believe that somone has
already made a hack to do this, I was on a bbs a few days ago and saw a file
described as "Makes the Amiga-M key work for flipping screens".  I will D/L it
and let you know if this is what we need.  Hopefully it is not a messy hack
and will be somthing that can be implemented easily into a new dos version or
can be used in a simple manner in peoples boot sequences.

While we're on the subject of *nice stuff* for 1.4, I would like to see a gadget
immeadiately to the left of the "layers" gadgets that when selected would
"iconize" the window.  I know there is a pd program to do that too but I have
not used it, in any case having a single gadget built into the window would be
very useful.


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