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In article <5228@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes:

   I would like to propose a change to the system sizing gadget.  The way it
   is now, the user is too limited in the directions he/she can alter the 
   window.  When trying to right-justify a window of a certain size, it can
   become quite a chore.  Resize-drag-resize-drag- etc.  This is one thing that
   I like in MS Windows (gak), that you can drag *any* corner around to resize
   the window.  I'm not necessarily proposing that that method be proposed,
   just something slightly more flexibly than the current version.

   I also would like to see what a previous poster proposed: visual display of
   the window borders while resizing (would that really be much of a problem to
   implement?  I wouldn't think so).

I agree entirely.  The best example of a window resize operation is
the way 'twm' does it for X windows.  In order to resize a window, you
click on the gadget, then move the pointer outside the window in any
direction.  If you exit near the middle of a side, you can only resize
in that direction.  If you exit at a corner, you can resize from that
corner.  If, for example, you exit from the top, and then move the
pointer down past the bottom of the window, it automatically grabs the
bottom of the window instead and starts resizing from that.  This is
similar to (though less versatile and more intuitive than) the method
for resizing used on the Xerox 1108/1186 series of Lisp machines.  The
only bad part about this scheme is that you must exit the window in
order to resize.  You cannot grab the gadget and simply move into the
window to make it smaller; you must first leave the window and then
reenter.  I also think that commands like resize and move should be
abortable by clicking the other mouse button before releasing the
button used to start the operation (see X window manager 'awm').
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus