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- From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Scalable Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.174502.15409@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 17:45:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec20.003951.24446@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Acadia University
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- parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
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- >Jeremy Mathers (pynq@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
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- >> In DV/X, for example, you can open a DOS window with scalable fonts, and
- >> you can then resize the window as tiny as you please, and it will
- >> continue to display a full 25x80 screen. Of course, the type gets
- >> tinier and tinier as you go, until it becomes virtually unreadable.
- >> But, it *does* work.
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- >You can do this somewhat by changing font sizes but you can't make it
- >respond to window resizing in that way.
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- This is certianly a feature that I would like to see IBM add to OS/2 in a
- future release. It could be done in one of two ways, by adding a scalable
- setting in the notebook for a window or by adding a special scalling widget.
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- James Robie Skinner | Jodrey School of Computer Science James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca | Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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