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Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 19:43
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In article <126138@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
> In article <4341@sugar.hackercorp.com> (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > ... I'd like to at least allow a program to specify that it goes in the
> >top border of the window (SIZEBTOP):

> >This would let you have resizable windows that didn't waste 2 character columns
> >on the sizing gadget.

> Oh and for Peter, you only need (1) Front to back gadget if you think about
> it, so you could save some space there as well. 

But that's not the sort of "space" I care about saving. You can put the kitchen
sink in the title bar and so long as it doesn't make it taller I could care
less. But if you put anything in any other border you have to thicken the whole
border to make room.

Putting sizing gadgets in all corners are a good idea, but do it like Microsoft
Windows: the whole border is thickened, and grabbing the border anywhere lets
you resize the window. Go play with Windows... it's really very well designed,
a whole lot better than the Mac (too bad the program interface isn't as nice
as the user interface).
-- 
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 <amolitor@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
Message-ID: <4351@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 14 Oct 89 19:43:53 GMT
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