Notes from a Newbie

Jim Benson jb at speed.net
Mon Apr 8 17:01:48 UTC 2002


Charles,

This annoyance was fixed in later versions of Squeak. I know it works in
3.2, but I am pretty sure it was fixed in 3.1.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hixson" <charleshixsn at earthlink.net>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Notes from a Newbie


> On Monday 08 April 2002 01:54, goran wrote:
> > Charles Hixson <charleshixsn at earthlink.net> wrote:
> ...
> >
> > > It is a weakness of the Win95 Squeak implementation that the screen
> > > cannot be resized.  Presumably there is some programmatic way to do
this,
> > > but if the containing window is resized, then ideally the colored
> > > backgrounds, and the size of the working surface would be resized.
> >
> > Eh... I run Squeak at home on a Win98 machine and I can resize the
> > window -
> > I think I have been able to do that since the beginning of time. Or
> > something.
> >
> > Perhaps I didn't understand what you meant...
> >
> > regards, Göran
>
> I think you probably do.  Perhaps it acts differently on Win98 than on
Win95.
>  But If I open Squeak to the initial dialog and then grab the corner of
the
> window and drag it down, the window resizes, but the working area does
not.
> Nor does the color extend beyond the original size.  (I haven't tried
> shrinking, but my guess would be that the size would be maintained.  I
would
> hope that it would be possible to scroll the containing window so as to
> access all parts of the Squeak area, but, as I said, I haven't tried
this.)
>
>
>




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