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Re: OS3.9 "Maximize" Gadget Button
« on: June 02, 2005, 05:54:33 AM »
@boing:
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I initially was mortified to see that 2.04 (and on)Workbench became a window that sits on the WB Screen. But after a couple of years, i found it to be handy every so often. I wonder about graphics efficiency though.
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From my understanding (I've been wrong before) you need a window to draw to, so the 1.x Workbench was a Backdrop window on the Workbench screen with a different Screen titlebar while selected.  So, in 2.04, they just added an option to turn the BACKDROP flag off, and the window then inheritted normal window functions, like the new zoom button and its niftiness, which I always thought an excellent reason to dump the back button (double click it, it doesn't hurt too much), which saves space on the window (designed to be viewed in 640x200x2).

@LinchpiN:

FKey has options for Minimise and Maximise functions on windows.

Maybe it was MUI programs you were thinking of, where you can Iconify, Minimize, Snapshot, etc., from a drop-down list whose gadget appeared in the title-bar nearby the zoom gadget.


My 2 cents...


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