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- From: wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: message line bogosity
- Message-ID: <Meb5jssGf0478spWxm@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:37:12 GMT
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- I like the idea of dynamic resizing.
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- Currently the message line works very hard at shrinking itself smaller when you
- enlarge it. Example: I visit a new file with a long path name. I enlagre the
- message line. When the new file is read, since it's displayed in a new
- "buffer" the message line goes back to the default size. This too can
- often be a lose.
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- Making everything be a dialogue box may or may not be a good thing.
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- Now that ATK has real pop-up dialogue boxes, maybe someone could code
- one of those allegedly winning macintosh file dialogue boxes. The ones
- I've used on the Mac suck, but maybe a decent one exists somewhere.
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- -wdc
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