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Article #1671Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
From: Dan Barrett
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1989 15:35
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1989 15:35
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In article <4703@amiga.UUCP> jimm@batgirl.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
> [This is why you need only 1 depth gadget, not 2.]
>If you click the depth gadget, the window comes to the front if
>it is not already. If you click it when the window is in front, it goes
>to the back. People like little new habits. There might be a change
>replacing the phrase "already in front" to "unobscured."
Did you realize that this method is not as powerful as the 2-gadget
method (window-to-front, window-to-back gadgets)? Windows that are
"sandwiched" between two other windows will require extra clicks for the
user to manipulate them. Here's a sample scenario to demonstrate this.
Picture three stacked windows, labelled 1, 2, and 3. 1 is on top of
2, and 2 is on top of 3. Window 1 covers exactly the left half of the
screen. Window 2 covers the entire screen. Window 3 covers exactly the
right half of the screen.
The object is to display window 3, which is totally obscured by
window 2.
With the one-gadget system, what must you do? Well, you can't click
on window 3 at all, so you click window 2's gadget. Since window 2 is not
in front (window 1 is), it comes to the front. Now click window 2 again
to send it to the back, thereby displaying window 3.
With the two-gadget system, you just click window 2's "back" gadget,
displaying window 3.
Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!barrett From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget Keywords: Horror Window Depth 1.4 Message-ID: <2940@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 15 Oct 89 15:35:13 GMT References: <5228@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <4341@sugar.hackercorp.com> <126138@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4696@amiga.UUCP> <19529@ut-emx.UUCP> <4703@amiga.UUCP> Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) Distribution: na Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 35