WindowFrame design

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Jul 12 15:42:44 UTC 2001


On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:57:35PM -0700, Jim Benson wrote:
> Joshua,
> 
> > Once you are getting the same behavior as before, just remove
> > the ivars.
> >
> 
> Cool, I didn't realize that recompiling a class mutated existing instances.
> I should say, I knew that that was true (how else could the update streams
> work?), but when I actually thought about it my brain got stuck in the muck
> and somehow came to the conclusion that it was way hard, and therefore, must
> not work. I'm much happier now, life is almost worth living again.
> 
> >
> > At the risk of frightening you, THIS IS GREAT STUFF!!!!  I ABSOLUTELY LOVE
> IT!!!!!!
> >
> 
> I'm glad you think so, because I'm thinking that the RealEstateManager is a
> prime area to explore with Cassowary. You happen to be the resident expert,
> so ... :-)

I've been thinking more about user-specified constraints than window
management, but I'll know there's at least one paper that describes the
use of Cassowary for window management.  I'll take a look at it.

Joshua

> 
> Jim
> 
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