Re: Switching multiple apps (was Re: The Manager...)

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
: 
:     That would probably present only limited functionality over a
: screen-swapping type of switcher like SwitchIt!  What good is working on
: an application when only half of it is showing?  Besides, what do you do
: about paint programs like DreamGrafix where all sixteen palettes are
: used up already?  You won't have any colours left to draw the other
: visible applications!  That's assuming a background app (like DG or
: SuperView) doesn't take over all the SCB's when it runs.  SI gets around
: this quite nicely by switching entire screens.

Hi!

Switch It method, IMHO, is good. The Amiga method is proposed because it is
slightly more flexible then a switcher, but will not corrupt the screen like
a MultiFinder will do (on a computer with different resolution).

If we can use overlapping windows, why not overlapping applications? To use
an application, just click it to the front, just like the window in
MultiFinder.

What happened if all 16 colours is used? I would suggest this: let the
foreground applications takes all 16 palettes.

Most applications will looks alright because they are using standard palette,
especially the 640 mode applications. Applications like DreamGrafix, will
make the background application looks weird in colour, but it is not as
terrible as displaying 320 mode applications in 640 mode.

: == Real name: Brian Tao (Dept. of Exobiology, University of Toronto)
: == Preferred: taob@r-node.pci.on.ca -->>> No Mail Over 15K Please!
: == Free Plug: This message was prepared with =MuGS 2.0=, the only
: ==            offline Internet mail reader for the Apple IIGS!

--
    %% GS Lover Loves GS %%    Author of Super Magic 3 & Mandelbrot II GS
    %%  and Avatar too.  %%   
          Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.
     My address: LTCHEAN@ISS.NUS.SG, or 9, College Green, Singapore 1129