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- From: sho@planets.risc.rockwell.com (Sho Kuwamoto)
- Subject: Re: Window Zooming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.180924.211@planets.risc.rockwell.com>
- Reply-To: sho@risc.rockwell.com (Sho Kuwamoto)
- Organization: Rockwell International Science Center, Thousand Oaks, Ca.
- References: <1993Jan1.122830.1@vaxc>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:09:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.122830.1@vaxc> matsrc@vaxa.hofstra.edu writes:
- >A window is put in its standard state, which is smaller than
- >the screen (like a Finder window). It is then moved elsewhere on the
- >screen, but to another valid position for its standard state. When the
- >user clicks on the zoom box, you would like FindWindow to return
- >inZoomIn because the window is in its standard state, but how will
- >FindWindow know that?
-
- I ignore the difference between inZoomIn and inZoomOut, and
- use my own code to figure out whether the window needs to be
- zoomed in or out. Window zooming works differently now than
- it did when first implemented, and it's too hard to force
- the new behavior to fit into the old mechanism.
-
- >(2) Which takes precedence when switching to the standard state: The
- >desire to leave the top left corner fixed, or the desire to leave space
- >on the right of the main screen for Finder icons?
-
- I don't bother leaving space for the Finder icons. I can
- see going either way on this one, I suppose.
-
- -Sho
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