On 8 May 2008, at 06:04, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 7 May '08, at 8:50 PM, John Clayton wrote:
Does anyone know of literature or code / algorithms that I can look
at to learn about how this is done or which approaches are possible?
The good news is that some of the details must be public, since this
is patented. You can look up the patent online.
The bad news is that you'd have to license the patent from Apple to
implement anything similar...
Some more good/bad news:
Bad: It's impossible to come up with an optimal algorithm to do this
in sensible time. If you do, you've solved the packing problem!
Good: There's plenty of easy to imagine simplistic aproaches that will
have varying degrees of success. Try maybe comparing the centre
positions of windows to find out whether they're slightly to the left/
right of each other, and moving them slowly in that direction, while
shrinking them slowly until they stop overlapping. That one's really
naïve, and won't give you as good results as exposé, but it's a start,
and can lead to some further playing.
Bob_______________________________________________
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