Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!crimmins From: crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Multifinder observations Message-ID: <174400086@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Dec 87 02:35:00 GMT References: <274@dbase.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:dbase.UUCP:274:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:174400086:000:1165 Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!crimmins Dec 10 20:35:00 1987 > In article <1467@aecom.YU.EDU>, naftoli@aecom.YU.EDU (Robert N. Berlinger) writes: > > In article <2693@sphinx.uchicago.edu>, cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu (John Cavallino) writes: > > > > > > How about a command (or key-combo or check-box or checked menu item,...) > > > to cause ALL of an application's windows (its entire "layer") to zoom into > > > an icon on the desktop (maybe the application's own icon???) whenever that > > > application is switched out. To switch it back in, you'd double-click on that > > > icon, whereupon they would all zoom back into being and become the frontmost > > > layer. Sound plausible? > > > > Comment: You're describing Microsoft Windows' iconing feature. > > Further comment: Also Apple's Lisa Office System (7/7) and one of the Xerox > systems that people I knew at JPL were using (I think it was the Star). > The metaphor is not new, nor was it created at either MicroSoft or Apple. I > don't know if it was created at PARC or not. I don't know where this came from, but it also exists on sun workstations and undoubtedly numerous other graphic-oriented workstations... -- Dan Crimmins crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu