Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget Message-ID: <4392@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Oct 89 01:48:12 GMT References: <5228@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <4341@sugar.hackercorp.com> <539@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <4714@amiga.UUCP> <4386@sugar.hackercorp.com> <28268@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 37 You apparently missed one point of my suggestion... that it be selectable by SIZEBTOP (a new flag), just as SIZEBRIGHT is selected today. In article <28268@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> michael@maui.UUCP (michael gersten) writes: > This will cause major problems if a window is resizable and not movable. Then don't set SIZEBTOP on non-draggable windows. Really, no matter what you do programmers will still make inconvenient design decisions. That a feature can be misused is no reason to prohibit it. If you're playing what if... what about resizable non-movable windows near the bottom of the screen right now? > It will also cause problems if you want to shrink a window. Right now I > place my text window where I want the top, put some garbage text in, > and then shrink it until there is no wasted space at the bottom. So don't use SIZEBTOP on your text windows. > Besides, any growth/shrinkage must now be followed with a window move. Why? > Please, keep the size gadget in the corner, and do proper clipping/scrolling > so that we can get a 23 by 79 window that only scrolls when data is put in > the bottom corner. I don't have any idea what you mean by the reference to clipping and scrolling. That's a function of console.device, not intuition. A 23 by 79 window might be enough for you, but I can make a 24 by 80 window if I can put the sizing gadget in the top. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor