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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!phaedrus
- From: phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus)
- Subject: Re: How do I find a hole in the DeskTop?!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.052651.3104@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
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- References: <yjc-251292012254@yjc-slip.dialin.cwru.edu> <1992Dec28.024044.3652@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:26:51 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Dec28.024044.3652@panix.com> rmah@panix.com (Robert Mah) writes:
- >In <yjc-251292012254@yjc-slip.dialin.cwru.edu> yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome 'TofuSoft' Chan) writes:
- >>How do I find a clear section of the desktop which is NOT covered by
- >>Windows?! I've want my clock application window to slowly creep to the
- >>nearest uncovered region on the desktop.
- >GREAT IDEA. I'm gonna use it too, if you don't mind.
-
- I'm not sure that this is such a good idea. The user is always supposed
- to be in control of the Mac interface. When I put a window somewhere on my
- screen, it means that I've decided that that's a perfectly fine place for that
- window, and I would just assume it didn't try to crawl somewhere else on its
- own, thank you very much. :)
- If you do decide to do this, be sure to make it user-configurable. And
- while you're making it user-configurable, add the option to make the window
- just teleport to a clear location, rather than "creeping" there. Even if I
- wanted this feature, I'm not sure that I'd want a background application
- like a clock using up the CPU time required to slowly move its window across
- the screen.
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