Re: Goofy NSDrawer behavior
Re: Goofy NSDrawer behavior
- Subject: Re: Goofy NSDrawer behavior
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:10:17 -0700
On Sunday, July 22, 2001, at 03:02 PM, Steve Gehrman wrote:
You can't resize an nsdrawer wider than your window, and you can't
resize your window to be less wide than your drawer. This is really
annoying and should be an optional behavior.
This is part of the fundamental design specification for drawers, and is
not likely to change soon. The metaphor of the drawer is that it slides
out of its parent window, and for this reason both drawer and parent
window are constrained to be sized so that the drawer is smaller than
its parent.
If you want additional optional space that is larger than the main
window area, you have a number of other options. You can have a window
that resizes itself, or you can have a separate utility window, you can
have multiple drawers, or you can have tabs. Consider, for example, the
large and small versions of the save panel, or the varying behavior of
the font panel as it is resized, or the resizing of the System
Preferences window, for some varied approaches to sizing. Perhaps other
participants on this list have other means of deploying optional space
that they might wish to share--there are many possibilities.
Douglas Davidson