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

[90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Lim Thye Chean's lips:
> 
> With a click of DreamGrafix in the above example, it became the front
> application while AppleWorks GS running at background. The metaphor is almost
> the same as the Mac MultiFinder, but instead of overlapping windows, we have
> overlapping applications. This is great because there will not be corrupted
> screen with wrong colour and wrong resolution.

    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.
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