Zurgle Project Update

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Sep 27 01:15:33 UTC 2001


Are you aware of the option 'use solid tab' in a flap's control menu?
You can adjust the width/height; it seems quite similar to what you want, 
especially if you set it up to pop up on mouseover.

Joshua

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:22:16AM -0400, Stephan B. Wessels wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:37 PM
> Subject: RE: Zurgle Project Update
> 
> 
> >
> > * Get rid of that menu bar!!! (or at least make it a pop-out thingy) It was
> > truly amazing to me how the mere presence of the menu bar almost immediately
> > took me out of the constructive feel of plain sheet of paper and back into
> > the conservative WIMP style (perhaps that's intended?! ;-)
> >
> 
> Hmm.  I'd rather see an option to enable the menu bar approach and then an additional option
> that, if the menu bar is enabled, it can work in an auto-hide mode.  That would be a flap
> without a label.  Could probably do that now with some transparent label design.
> 
> Speaking of auto-hide, is there a good way to configure the NavigationMenu so that it can hide
> completely?  I find myself wanting to take screen shots and often just end up destroying the
> Morph to get rid of that "orange lip".  Perhaps there could be a general parameter which
> controls the height of any auto-hiding panes?
> 
> Jim's stuff looks like fun.
> 
>  - Steve
> 
> 




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