🚀 go-pugleaf

barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
> In article <4703@amiga.UUCP> jimm@batgirl.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
> > [This is why you need only 1 depth gadget, not 2.]
> ...
>         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.

You do need one more click-- but clicking twice instead of once is SO EASY,
that it makes little difference.  In fact, I would bet that it's easier to do
this than decide which of the two existing front<->back gadgets to click on.
I know I'm always forgetting which one is which...

-Miles