Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!uplherc!esunix!blgardne From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multi-tasking Message-ID: <1442@esunix.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 13:55:09 GMT References:Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation Lines: 32 From article , by limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli): > In article <1284@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) writes: >> 3. reading the Net (I had a program called X-RAY running that let me >> look through Handshake's window so I could keep an eye on the >> lower left portion of the PC window. This is a great little program >> that was available on a Compute's Amiga Resources disk. You can place >> this window on any screen, resize it and flip through any other windows >> to give you a scrollable view of what's going on.) > > Now THAT's what I'd like to see in 1.4. If multitasking and multiple > screens blow away most users, a utility like that would really be a > killer. Is it PD or how does Compute! manage their copyrights? Can > it be posted? Compute probably forbids redistribution, but there was a PD/shareware program that does the same thing that I saw about a year ago. I've forgotten what it was called, but I think I got it from People Link. Compute's version sounds more advanced if it can flip the x-ray view through different screens, and scroll the view into the other screen. As I remember, the one I had only showed the screen immediatly behind the WB screen, and you could size & move the x-ray window, but not scroll its contents. This isn't much to go on, but there is something out there that's redistributable. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 Here: utah-cs!esunix!blgardne {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne There: uunet!iconsys!caeco!i-core!worsel!blaine (My Amiga running uucp) "Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC."