Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1989 11:05

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In article <778@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>      I've puzzled over how this scheme would work myself.  I guess you
> would grab the sizing gadget and be able to move the top and right borders
> to resize the window.  So if you wanted to make the window taller you'd
> have to drag it down first.  Is that right?

Well, unless it was already at the bottom of the screen (like Browser's
root window) or at least in the middle (like the default location for a
new CLI). Presumably a program that defined SIZEBTOP would put it in a
convenient location in the first place. I've used window systems like this
before and it's not a problem.
-- 
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)
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Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
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Date: 18 Oct 89 11:05:49 GMT
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