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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dragging windows off-screen
Message-ID: <1958@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 16:12:15 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... dp1g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Demetri Patukas) writes:
> How come mac people can drag their windows off the edge of the
> screen and we can't?

I brought this question up about six months ago, and also noted that it's
really not that much of an extension. Intuition already supports offscreen
bitmaps, and there's not that much difference between dragging
a window near the back of the window stack behind another window (you
can stop and verify that that works :->) and dragging it off the screen.

The changes would have to be made to layers.library to properly split the
windows clipping rectangles into two or three extra slices, and to intuition
to properly clip those xor-ed lines when you drag the windows around.

As Demetri pointed out, this would do wonders for the perceived size of the
display. It wouldn't cause any real problems for programs, since you can't
drag a window to anywhere the mouse pointer can't point, you would always be
able to get to the drag bar.

Another thing that would increase the display size  would be scrolling menus:
when you're mousing through the menus and you get to the bottom it should
scroll the menu up as the mouse moves down. Deluxe Paint would immediately
benefit.
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