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| Short description |
| Look Through Screens! |
| Proposed name |
| X-Ray Vision |
| Full description |
| I havent seen such a utility, and I don't know if it's possible, but why not... I suggest that you write a utility which opens resizeable windows which is possible to see through. i.e. You are makin' a piccy in Photogenics, and u wanna do something in a other program (wordworth), then u could keep track on the progress of Photogenics and still be in Wordworth! The program should be as fast as possible and maybe be graphics- card compatible... It MUST be a moveable, scaleable and very Bugfree! Please make such a program...somebody!! Greetings to the whole Amiga Community from Sapie! (A4000) Please send me a mail if u have something to say about thiz. |
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I use a utility on my Winblows 98 box that allows one to 'cut' holes [circle, rectangle, polygonal, and freeform] in windows, and it is great, i think an amiga version would be good aswell, but there are some constraints as pointed out by others 15/04/2002 tonsofpcs I have been thinking of *translucent* windows for a while. The window could combine the background with its own image. The background info would be 'cloudy', while the window's info would be clear and apparently 'on top'. This trick would take a bit of processing... But everyone's in the upgrading business anyway... and by the time someone writes it, most people should have powerPCs at least... I am not sure about the details of the implementation, but I think with OS support it could be done nicely. The program whose window it is would have to be informed whenever the background changes (?). 19/02/1999 Anton Rolls Nah, SIW does let you use public screens, but just not by default IIRC. You have to select Use All Screens, or some such. 07/03/1998 Sam Stickland I checked out SIW and found that while the documentation *says* the program will show part of "any public or private (!) screen" on "any public or private (!) screen", the program does not quite live up to that promise. It only does public screens, which makes it slightly pointless - afaik the point with public screens is that you can open two or more programs on the same screen (not the Workbench) anyway, so you could just open the program you want to use and the one you want to keep an eye on, on the same screen, and be Bob's nephew. Now there's another program called Lupe which can open a window on *any* screen and use it to enlarge part of that screen. It does not work from one screen to another though. A combination of the two programs (with or without scaling) would be ideal... 12/02/1998 Ragnar Fyri Aminet: util/misc/SIW2.lha Don't you people even *look*? 06/02/1998 Adam Lounds It's not true that windows can't be made transparent. All you have to do is to define the Window background hook to a do nothing function and it will not clear the background everytime it is refreshed. 05/02/1998 Manuel Lemos I had seen a program (PIP) that displays another screen in a window, but a bit down-scaled (e.g. twice smaller), but it was a bit limited. The only problem is that to make such a thing, the program must continuously copy the pixels from the screen to be seen into the window (but just put a command to wait a bit between each frame and it shouldn't use too much processor). If you want to have the real size, there would be a problem with different resolutions: You have a low resolution screen and want to see a very high resolution screen (1024*768), the program should open a high resolution window in a low resolution screen, which isn't really possible. So the above solution (down scaled screen seems) to me to be better. 26/01/1998 Maxime Gamboni AFAIK the only way to "see through" windows is to make programs draw in each other's windows, which can't be done. If one of the programs you want to keep one eye each on has a resizeable window, just size it to fill half the screen and put it in front of the other. If they're on different screens just pull the front screen halfway down. As a last resort, get another Amiga! ;-) 23/01/1998 Ragnar Fyri |