Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!mailrus!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!adobe!gelphman From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: DOS & MS-windows Vs. Unix & X experience + MS-windows Flame Message-ID: <3940@adobe.COM> Date: 30 May 88 20:13:55 GMT References: <10799@apple.Apple.Com> <10700005@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> <11222@apple.Apple.Com> Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 19 In article <11222@apple.Apple.Com> jrg@apple.UUCP (John R. Galloway) writes: >In article <10700005@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes: >>> The idea of positioning the dialog box under the present position of the >>> mouse is worth a try. >> >>Yes, it sounds like a good idea, but what do you do if the mouse is over on >>the edge of the screen, such that the dialog box would be mostly off-screen >> There is a very nice INIT/CDEV for the Macintosh called Front & Center which was written by Pete Helme. It centers dialogs around the current mouse position. When the mouse is near the edge of the screen it places the dialog as close to the edge as possible but with the whole dialog showing. It works very well, especially with very large screens. The only down side I've seen is that if you use two screens only the main screen is used. The whole effect does surprise guest users of my machines...they don't expect common dialogs to appear where they sometimes do. David Gelphman Adobe Systems, Inc.