Boudreaux likes to multitask, especially when it comes to using his computer. Never satisfied with just running one application at a time, he usually runs nine applications, each in its own window. Due to limited screen real estate, he overlaps these windows and brings whatever window he currently needs to work with to the foreground. If his screen were a 4 x 4 grid of squares, each of Boudreaux's windows would be represented by the following 2 x 2 windows:
When Boudreaux brings a window to the foreground, all of its squares come to the top, overlapping any squares it shares with other windows. For example, if window
1and then window
2 were brought to the foreground, the resulting representation would be:
| If window 4 were then brought to the foreground: | |
. . . and so on . . .
Unfortunately, Boudreaux's computer is very unreliable and crashes often. He could easily tell if a crash occurred by looking at the windows and seeing a graphical representation that should not occur if windows were being brought to the foreground correctly. And this is where you come in . . .