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Hello nice MorphOS thread. :)

I think Screen Dragging is annoying and confusing. I support the developers decisions and instead of Screen Dragging, I much prefer a expansion of both high quality hardware and software.

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If there's any such spirit in "Amiga world", that obsolete features, that have lost their purpose and usefulness, and are MUCH harder and resource-intensive to implement in modern hardware should in any case be implemented "just because" (aka "no arguments for wasting time with it") - then we should definitely distance our community from them.

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(Classic Amigas didn't have them anyway but...) we STILL lack support for character graphics modes, how much MORE oldschool would that be? All speed gains are practically lost since decades ago, but perhaps we should have them anyway?

In any case, in my opinion it's better to concentrate on features that would be at least somehow USEFUL, instead of pointless hacks like this, that would likely complicate lots of things without ANY gain. Sure, it WAS ugly hack already on classic amigas, but then there was PURPOSE (f.ex. image editor showing image in the defined screenmode, and user being able to use color picker that uses completely different paletter, all on one screen with ugly black stripe in the middle) - that's something made obsolete already by 15/16bit screenmodes, and even more so 24bit. Honestly, I don't miss it. I didn't like it in 80's and 90's either, but back then there was no other way.

But is there ANY point in screen dragging? Sure, running those old paint programs. And guess what? MorphOS already DOES support that. Just load UAE, that's where such hacks belong. Most of them would fail to work for other reasons anyway, if this hack was added to OS. Or better, use better graphics program that doesn't need such outdated features

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More specifically, it's Amiga hardware feature. Amiga hardware could do that, modern hardware cannot. When any Amiga was upgraded with a gfx card, this hack was no longer working - except with "native" screenmodes, of course. So this "not working on anything more modern" isn't actually a new issue at all.

If anyone wanted to waste big developer effort, it could be emulated, but that's:
1)Ugly
2)Slow
3)Useless / Pointless.

Like I said, the REAL feature was "multiscreen", being able to display different resolutions & bit depths at the same time. Screen dragging was just some already then "useless extra". But as hardware could do that easily and fast, there was no real point againist NOT doing it. Unlike now.

> as hardware could do that easily and fast, there was no real point againist NOT doing it.

;-)

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There's a subtle difference between knowing how to do something and wanting to do this. I see no place for this feature in MorphOS since it has no practical uses.

Please give us screen dragging, we all know that this is useless amiga feature, but we just wanna wait for useful MorphOs stuff.
Also give us Guru Meditation and feature to boot from floppy because I have many A500 games which I wanna try on MorphOs.
I know this is impossible to do, but that's also amiga feature so why not waste time and money on that.

We just wanna waste resources and time on stupid stuff, just like some other Os do.


Ps:
I love MorphOs, not Amiga anymore. :)

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It wouldnt hurt to have drag'n drop between screens but screen dragging is not a prerequisite for drag'n drop between screens. It could be dragging icons from a monitor to another.

I've never missed screen dragging on MorphOS. The few advantages it has could be achieved in different ways, like the screen preview in the screenbar or the feature of placing MUI windows on any pubscreen.

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True but this is NOT about drag and drop but having seperate screens for games, apps and working all inna harmony. If extended with multi screens (multiply monitors) szpport that is way ahead creppy bad concept force one resolution, if app opens another do slow resolution switch n redraw.

If you could do drag and drop between screens that would be damn fine.

Interest among users exists, so please add it to future to do, instead easy Steven Solie style rejection.

@vox

You can have as many screens as you want.

You can have as many monitors as supported by your HW/drivers.


Still don't see a missing "feature"....

Draggable screens are something useful in the 80s, but even then I never used it, so I never missed that. In the 30 years that have passed, I used a lot of computers and operating systems and never needed screen dragging. Think that in Windows 8 where you have to close apps dragging the app down (it remembers me of screen dragging) instead of using a close button, I hate that feature...