Re: new command: raise

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > > Most graphical apps have "Tile" and "Cascade" functions.
> > ??  Sorry, I am not familiar with these.  What do these do?
> 
> Wow, you have really not seen this? Even in old brave DOS Turbo Vision
> environments, Win 3.1 and anywhere else?
>   It tiles or cascades all open windows... so changes their size and
> position to fit on the desktop.

I think you're mixing up internal windows inside a larger application
window, known as MDI (for "multi-document interface"), with features of
the desktop at large.  And that's exactly what we're discussing here: your
change would have the main gnuplot instance maintain central control over
several daughter windows.  I.e. it'd make gnuplot a multiple-document
program, but without having all those daughter windows confined inside a
single "master" window.  The only Windows program I've seen behaving like
that, so far, was Borland C++ Builder 1.0, and quite a lot of people hated
it for this reason.  

As a matter of fact, "tile" and "cascade" for the desktop itself haven't
existed in Windows for a long time.  They were in Win3.1, but this feature
was removed again pretty soon after.  I don't think it's been part of
anything newer than Win95.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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