[squeak-dev] The Trunk: ToolBuilder-Morphic-mt.131.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Apr 19 13:00:35 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:43:04PM +0200, karl ramberg wrote:
> Marcel fixed most issues in
> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Morphic-mt.894.mcz.
> Buttons can now resize to quite small size.
> 
> There are still issues when windows are really small, see attached image.

But overall the behaviour seems very good to me :)

Dave

> 
> I think most of those issues would be solved if tools explicitly set their
> panes minWidth and minHeight sizes.
> 
> 
> 
> Karl
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at keystone-software.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > How about scrolling the buttons?
> >
> > Lou
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:25:03 +0200, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I agree that it's yucky to wrap the buttons, bit it's at least equally
> > >yucky to have them poking out the right side of the SystemWindow ;-)
> > >
> > >Another idea is that since these are so called "optional buttons", all
> > >their functionality can be selected from menus or by keyboard shortcuts,
> > so
> > >if the window is to small to fit them, they could be hidden.
> > >That way the small window have more space to show code pane and the list
> > >panes.
> > >
> > >Karl
> > >
> > >On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Chris Cunningham <
> > cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:12 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hm...
> > >>> Then the buttons should wrap instead of poking out the side of the
> > window.
> > >>> The buttons work but the GUI look is not very nice.
> > >>>
> > >>> Karl
> > >>>
> > >>> Wrapping the button bar?  yuck.
> > >> what about having the button bar factor into the minimum width of the
> > >> containing tool?  Not allowing the tool to get small enough to force the
> > >> write/overflow.
> > >> This is probably relevant for height, too.
> > >> -cbc
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Marcel Taeumel <
> > >>> marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> But clipping is not good because you hide buttons that cannot be
> > clicked
> > >>>> anymore. :-( There actually is a minimal window extent, which just has
> > >>>> to be
> > >>>> honored/computed. :)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Best,
> > >>>> Marcel
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> View this message in context:
> > >>>>
> > http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-ToolBuilder-Morphic-mt-131-mcz-tp4819699p4820052.html
> > >>>> Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Louis LaBrunda
> > Keystone Software Corp.
> > SkypeMe callto://PhotonDemon
> > mailto:Lou at Keystone-Software.com http://www.Keystone-Software.com
> >
> >
> >


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