Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget

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From: John Lindwall
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 17:15

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In article <4341@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Me too. I'd like to at least allow a program to specify that it goes in the
>top border of the window (SIZEBTOP):
>								   Front
>	Close                                                   Back | Size
>	+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>	|()| Title                                               |//|\\|oO|
>	|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
>
>This would let you have resizable windows that didn't waste 2 character columns
>on the sizing gadget.


Now this idea is great - so simple, but SO useful.  When I read this I thought
"Now why didn't someone think of this years ago!? Why didn't *I* think of this?"
Well, as a person who dislikes sacrificing columnar real-estate for a single
20x20 pixel square  ----  I love this idea!  Backwards compatible too, and we
just have to sacrifice a flag bit.



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John Lindwall                            johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
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From: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall)
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Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
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Date: 13 Oct 89 17:15:36 GMT
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