Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Live Window Thumbnails

Posted on 10:10 PM by Remote Computer Support

Window Thumbnails
The other productivity features of Windows 7 minimize the need to switch to another application windows. However, this is still a very sharp need and the success at delivering a live, vivid preview of another window is important for the following scenarios:

• Working in one program and easily previewing the status of another program or the data
presented by another program.

• By examining the previews of multiple windows, determining which window to switch to. This was usually done by using Flip-3D and a 3D stack of windows previews that was relatively difficult to.
Flip-3D is still available in windows 7 professional , but window switching and preview is another subset of the
functionality consolidated into the new taskbar. The Windows Vista thumbnails were the first live
window representations at the taskbar; the Windows 7 taskbar introduces several significant
enhancements to these thumbnails, including:

• Multiple thumbnails for tabbed-document interface (TDI) applications, such as Internet Explorer,
including switching support to a specific tab

• Live preview of the window (in full size) when hovering over the thumbnail

• A quick-access Close button on the thumbnail itself
This makes window navigation and switching so aesthetically pleasing that you might find yourself or your user playing with the live preview features without any intent to switch between windows!

TDI applications or applications willing to expose a custom window preview can take advantage of
these new features to plug into th
preview generation.

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