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Article #1747Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
From: James Crotinger
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1989 18:42
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1989 18:42
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pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: > The twm approach >(after selecting the gadget, the next corner of the window which the >mouse leaves becomes the one which is sized) is too confusing for >novices. I guess I don't see why people (others have mentioned this also) think the twm resizing technique is unintuitive. Once the cursor changes shape, you move to the edge/corner you want to resize. When you get to the border, it sticks to the cursor, and you resize as appropriate. I have to admit that it took a few tries to get used to, but that's only because I was so used to the Amiga/Mac way of resizing. BTW, I think the most intuitive method is having a resizable border all the way around the window, but this border *has* to be big, else it is too hard to grab. And on the Amiga's small screen I'm certainly not willing to give up the space! (The biggest trouble that twm has cause me is its iconification gadget. On more than one occaision I've accidently quit amiga applications by trying to iconify their windows 8-( ) Jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!muslix!jac From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget Message-ID: <36370@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 20 Oct 89 18:42:16 GMT References: <5228@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <4341@sugar.hackercorp.com> <539@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <4714@amiga.UUCP> <4386@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1275@quintus.UUCP> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) Distribution: na Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/UC Davis Lines: 24