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- Item 0313211 18-Dec-90 12:10
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- From: ATUL@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@INTERNET#
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- INTERNET# Document Id: <9012182022.AA18489@apple.com>
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- Sub: Suggestions...
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- TO REPLY, use: ATUL@brownvm.brown.edu@INTERNET#
- Using the reply function in AppleLink does not work for gatewayed E-mail yet.
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- From: Atul Butte <ATUL@brownvm.brown.edu>
- To: MacApp Distribution <MACAPP.TECH$@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM>
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- Here are some suggestions to those working on 3.0...
-
- o How about having more control over the placement of subviews in
- views. One should have control over each side of the view. For
- example, I should be able to create a subview within a window that
- always stays the same height, but stays at the bottom of the window:
-
- | | |
- | | |
- | +---+
- | |\|/|
- +----------+---+--------------+---+---+
- | Page xx |<--| |-->|[[]|
- +----------+---+--------------+---+---+
-
- Now when I resize the window, I would like the page number view to
- stay the same height and width, but to always stay at the bottom of
- the window (and the left). Think Class Libraries have more of this
- control than MacApp at this point...
-
- I realize I can do this with code... but to have this for any view
- would be great!
-
- o How about some way to specify data when creating a new document?
- For example, if I were to write a news-reading program and I
- double clicked on one out of a list of messages, I would want to
- create a document with the text of the message in it. But at this
- point, there is no way to specify information when creating a new
- document (i.e. creating a document does not return a pointer to
- the document).
-
- In other words, there should be a way to specify state/data for a
- new document that HASN'T been read from disk.
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- Thanks for listening... I would really like to see these features
- in 3.0!
-
- Atul Butte
- Brown University
- atul@brownvm.brown.edu
-