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From: mp1u+%andrew.cmu.edu@mitvma.mit.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another God Damm 1.4 Suggestion:
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Date: 5 Jun 89 16:17:51 GMT
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>> 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.

     That's reason enough not to do it  ;-).

>> 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.

     Iconify, sure.  Please forget zoom gadgets.  It is possible to implement
 a windowing environment without copying the Mac.  Micro Soft did it.

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