Re: Constrained Window Resizing
Re: Constrained Window Resizing
- Subject: Re: Constrained Window Resizing
- From: Lloyd Sargent <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:29:54 -0500
I want to make a window or a view in a window resizable. The wrinkle is
that
it doesn't make sense in my app it makes sense to constrain it to
maintain
the aspect ratio. This isn't hard to code but I can't find any UI
conventions to let the user know that it's resizable only along a path.
Anybody have any ideas?
Hmmm... not GOOD ideas...
It is interesting that I have dealt with UI's that basically have said
"you can resize it but only on my terms" and they have not had anything
to indicate that it was only resizeable along a given aspect ratio
(other than resizing along the given aspect ratio). I believe that
Photoshop's selection tool can be set to a specific aspect ratio and
unless you remember setting it that way it looks no different than a
regular selection (except, again, everything moves in that aspect ratio).
This seems to be something that will become obvious to the user when
they do the resizing, right? I'm not sure you need to inform them of
this fact if they don't resize at all.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers,
Lloyd
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