Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!tymix!antares!pnelson
From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench features
Summary: (AKA - another 1.4 suggestion)
Keywords: screens
Message-ID: <457@antares.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 18:32:11 GMT
References: <4273@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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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?
|
|Or, if the "screen-to-front" gadget is as completely useless as it seems
|to be, maybe IT could be redefined instead. 
|

How about changing the function of the A-N and A-M keys very slightly, so
that A-N would always return you to the workbench screen as before, and
A-M would bring up the custom screen, but A-M again would roll through
the custom screens. It will be important to for the system to remember
which custom screen is on the top, so that toggling between the Worbench
and the custom screen you were using last does not require rolling through
the custom screens each time.

>
>
>Just a suggestion,
>
>Brian Rhodefer

ditto
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