Project layout
Norton, Chris
chrisn at Kronos.com
Tue Feb 27 19:30:26 UTC 2001
I haven't followed this thread very carefully, but I'd like to toss in my 2
bits about projects and their layout.
I downloaded the Squeak 3.0 released version for Windows on Friday. It is
*really* slick!
However, when I went out to Bobs Super Swiki and loaded in some of the
sample projects, I found that large portions of the projects were pushed off
screen (bottom, right). I run with an 800 X 600. I have weak eyesight, so
I prefer to have somewhat larger text and pictures. I think it is
unacceptable for the sample projects to be pushed off screen like that.
I understand that people with higher resolutions and bigger monitors like to
use them to their fullest potential. So I propose that we (someone w/ the
skills) should add scroll bars to the world (they would only appear if
needed).
There are many solutions to this problem, but short of redesigning morphs to
be auto-scalable (a la layout frames), this would give us big bang for small
bucks.
What do y'all think?
Cheers,
---==> Chris
PS> Alternate ideas:
* Grabbable world (like Adobe Acrobat documents -- a tiny gripping
hand)
* A mini locator window that shows the whole project -- you click in
the window and it moves the center of your screen accordingly
* Little Arrow buttons in the corners of a project. Clicking on the
buttons moves your viewpoint over by some amount.
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