Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!bcm!uhnix2!uhnix1!sugar!peter 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 References: <0WUwYSy00XcSE5VEEN@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 27 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. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.