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- BIGBENCH: Double Screen Size Vertically
- Program by John Rowe
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- You're in for a surprise.
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- EXPERIMENT No. 1
- Double-click the BigBench icon in the BigBench drawer.
- Put the mouse pointer about in the center of the top bar of the J
- window. That's the drag bar. Click and hold the left mouse button and drag
- the window south. It goes so far that only a bit of the window remains in
- view.
- That's not supposed to be possible.
- What happened?
- BigBench doubled screen size vertically.
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- EXPERIMENT No. 2
- Hold down the Left-Amiga key (left of the space bar) and without
- pressing any mouse buttons, drag the mouse away from the computer.
- The screen scrolls upward, revealing the bottom of the new screen
- farther south than you would expect. There's a note from author John Rowe
- there.
- If you press the right mouse button while the pointer is on the bottom
- half of the BigBench layout, the screen instantly reverts to the top half,
- the program presuming you want to access a pulldown menu.
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- EXPERIMENT No. 3
- Open a CLI or Shell. Click and hold on the size gadget at southeast of
- the window. Hold down the Left-Amiga key and drag the mouse toward you. The
- window opens to accommodate twice as many lines as before. Of course, you
- can't see them all at once, but you can scroll up and down quickly.
- The same trick works in other program windows. As example, open a large
- text file with ED or another text processor. Resize the window downward and
- it will hold twice the number of lines as before.
- To revert to a normal screen, click off the BigBench title bar that
- appears when the program is run. That is, single-click the box at left of
- the bar.
- WARNING: Bring back all icons to top of window before exiting BigBench.
- Else, they could disappear forever.
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