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- From: rskm+@rchland.ibm.com (Robert Kemmetmueller)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: message line bogosity
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:05:33 GMT
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- Reply-To: "Robert Kemmetmueller" <rskm@rchland.vnet.ibm.com>
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- Excerpts from ext.misc.info-andrew: 26-Aug-92 Re: Hasn't themessage
- line.. Robert Andrew Ryan@RCHGA (1674+0)
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- > ...one of the wins of ATK and Emacs (gnu and gosling) overMacintosh
- > Toolbox and Motif is the fact that they have a message line. In the Mac
- > and Motif model, you have to pop up a dialog box for any
- > transientmessage, obscuring part of a window most probably. When a
- > message is purelyinformational this is a waste.
-
- Hear, hear!
- Anyway, this is a little off-the-wall, but how about dynamicallychanging
- the font size?
- When something in the message line gets too long, the text can getshrunk
- so it still fits.
- If there's a whole mess of text, it can get scrunched downinto a
- teeny-tiny font so it will all still fit.
-
- --Rob "the one-man Peanut Gallery" Kemmetmueller
-