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- Subject: Re: Window Cycling
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 17:47:53 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Annius Groenink wrote:
- >
- >> Under later AES versions, windows can be BOTTOMED, thereby creating the
- >> window-cycle effect.
- >
- >Not quite. It is actually the reverse of the cycle effect, as with
- >cycle, all windows are pushed down 1 level, except the lowest one,
- >whereas with bottom, the current window goes to the bottom while all
- >other windows get pulled one level up.
-
- In old versions of TOS, BOTTOMing was VERY difficult to implement, and
- so `cycle' was define to simply top the bottom-most window. Under the
- Motif window manager of X11, cycling is bottoming, as the manual indicates:
-
-
- The following key actions
- can be used to cycle through the global window stack.
-
- Key_Action__________Function__Description_______________
- [Alt][ESC] Place top window on bottom of stack
- [Alt][Shift][ESC] Place bottom window on top of stack
-
-
- Clear Alt-ESC is normal cycling and Alt-SFT-ESC is reverse cycling.
- (No, I'm not at all suggesting that we use these combinations)
-
- Having both versions is great (makes it easy to go back to the window
- you just cycled away), but not implementable on older TOS versions.
-
- So, to clarify:
-
- CTRL+Tab can be used to cycle windows
- Shift+CTRL+Tab can be used to cycle windows in reverse
-
- 1. If the AES cannot BOTTOM, both do the same thing (reverse cycle)
- 2. Forward cycling is BOTTOMING the top window.
- 3. Reverse cycling is TOPPING the bottom window OF ALL APPS.
-
- Make sense?
-
- --
- Warwick
-