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Wonderful news! That's a bit more QuickDraw terminology than I'm used to, but after consulting the eminent Think Reference for a while I believe I follow along pretty well :) Fantastic that you found an efficient way to do the screen updates! Can't wait to see the first demo! Did you...

All right, that makes more sense! They all have to animate together of course. Easier when you have the full picture. I'll leave the coding to you then :D My idea here was to just hide all windows, draw the zoom rects and then create new, empty, inactive windows with the same sizes (or just...

@Crutch, I take it from your answer that you don’t know of any way to access the system’s zoom rect algorithm, so I did some further investigation. An acceleration rate of 1.18 seems to match the original animation quite well. To minimize the number of calculations, I’m thinking it’s better to...

I didn't immediately realize that that extra "by the way" makes things quite a bit more complicated, since it means you can't just reverse the animations like I specified in the algorithm. If it makes things too complicated, restoring all windows and just making the selected folder/window the...

By the way, double-clicking the icon of a folder that's currently open and hidden will bring that particular window back, while leaving the rest hidden.

Haha, good! :) I'm totally fine with that. (But I personally only use a single monitor, so :) ) Great, sounds awesome! I personally only use the top right screen corner, like in the mockup. Ideally, it would possible to set it up freely in a control panel, but I'm open to any keystroke at the...

Great! Let me know if it starts to become overwhelming or tedious and I'll try to help the best I can. It would be cool to have the actual windows move of course, but I prefer to have a consistent interface (an extension exists that enables live dragging of windows, and that alone is rather...

Ps. Right click on the video and open it in a separate tab to view it correctly – it seems to get scaled by the forum software, which doesn't work very well with 1-bit graphics…

No problem! Having fun is the most important thing :) Anyway, I finally got some time to create the mock-up. Basically, functionality-wise I'm thinking an exact clone of the implementation in OS X. I created a topic for the idea/project here...

I've been thinking about writing this post for a loooong time, but I've felt that the idea was a bit too far-fetched, and that it would put the biggest effort on someone other than myself, so I've decided to focus on other projects this far. But since @Crutch opened the door for it to perhaps...

Oh, you're thinking about a different part of Exposé than I am! I was a bit puzzled when you began mentioning previews, but now I understand why :) I've only been thinking about the part that reveals the desktop, since that's the one I use by far the most, and also since I felt the "reveal all...

Wow, thanks for getting started with this! :) I've taken a break from my own programming efforts for a couple of months after getting my control strip modules to work, which was one of my primary goals, but this thread is very interesting to read. Impressive how much you were able to find out...

I should have checked eBay too :)   Tada: Focus Enhancements M2895LL/A Apple Presentation System 15-Pin DB15 RCA S-Video https://www.ebay.com/itm/Focus-Enhancements-M2895LL-A-Apple-Presentation-System-15-Pin-DB15-RCA-S-Video/153412482196?epid=218483773&hash=item23b818b494:g:c5kAAOSwNTVfbnsO

I have no idea, but yes, it does look like some sort of video card. Looks like two display connectors, an s-video connector, a composite video connector and a power connector. Felt like searching the web a bit, and the nearest clue I could find was this page...

I'm using Think C 5.0 on a PowerBook 170 (with a 68882 FPU). I've never touched the compiler settings, but FPU instructions are turned off. Turning them on however doesn't affect the results.

Just a simple C (Think C) question here. Can anyone explain why these two methods give different results? I have a decent understanding of how floating point numbers work in binary (5.67999…) and the problem with rounding during assignments, but I'm surprised that these two methods give...

I trust you  :-) Thanks for clearing that up. I found it while searching online. Apparently it's in an earlier version of Inside Macintosh, dated 1982–1984. Now that I check it, it's not in the 1985 version that I have saved on my computer. So probably a good idea that got scrapped :)

Another small update! Sliders are apparently not called sliders, but dials in Apple's documentation. Inside Macintosh mentions them in the following passages (of which the second seems to contradict the first…) (my highlighting):  

Small update regarding tool windows! After making a search for “WDEF” on Apple’s Developer Connection CD’s, I discovered a folder named “Floating Windows”, containing code for making windows float, as well as the third party software “Infinity Windoid WDEF” for implementing tool/palette windows...

Ah, I didn't see your reply until after my post above. That sounds like a good solution for now. I'll see if I can figure out how to code it. Thanks for the information about the buttons. I'll put CDEFs on my growing list of things to read up on! :)