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Article #10559Re: Talking to Workbench (in left field)
From: Brian J. Witt
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1988 18:40
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1988 18:40
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Several people have commented..
>
>I also like to rearrange my icons and windows. What I don't like, however,
>is having to select all these things (ESPECIALLY WITHOUT A SELECT ALL)
>and then do a snapshot. It would be nice if Workbench would automatically
>update this stuff.
>
>Also, how about standard system gadgets for ZOOM?
>Something like in excellence!
>
>
> William B. Norris IV
What if... a menu was attached to the window, ala LightSpeed "C"
and SunTools (or is it really X, not sure). The menu might have
-- zoom
-- select all
-- list by TEXT/multi-column text/Icons
-- move to shared screen
-- zoom in/out <-- great for tall (morerows) workbenches
And there could be the standard open/close/resize/shift somewhat off screen
mode selectors if you wanted. Boy, wuld this confuse some people :-)
What if... DOS (RAM, floppy, hard, recoverable) Disk drives hd a
packet type of "Return to me when a file is closed in this directory
that this file handle refers to". Then WB wouldjust have a bunch
of outstanding packets tat would be replied to when the directory was
updated. Then maybe the layers library could have a similar message
(no polling of layers) when a layer requires refreshing. Now, about
this GURU # 07000004... 8-)
Just some thoughts...
--- I bought my Amiga for the multi-tasking,
--- but the salesperson sez it does graphics, too!
--- brian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!well!aleks From: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench (in left field) Summary: menus on Wb drawers Keywords: Workbench, snapshot, upgrade, 1.4 Message-ID: <7905@well.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 88 18:40:49 GMT References: <3039@sugar.uu.net> <6457@netnews.upenn.edu> <6458@netnews.upenn.edu> <5416@cbmvax.UUCP> <4XaVmTy00Vsf4D0Hli@andrew.cmu.edu> <1696@pur-phy> <12270@cup.portal.com> <1606@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <686@myrias.UUCP> <1627@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Reply-To: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt) Organization: All Thumbs CAD software, Inc. Lines: 38