Re: Constrained Window Resizing
Re: Constrained Window Resizing
- Subject: Re: Constrained Window Resizing
- From: Lloyd Sargent <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:56:44 -0500
On Thursday, September 13, 2001, at 05:29 PM, Rob Rix wrote:
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.
You could change the cursor to a little pair of diagonal (top left and
bottom right) arrows.
Yeah, I thought of that at first, but what if the user is not planning
on resizing? Do you bring up a window and have the cursor change to
diagonal arrows? From what I understood, Chris had a window that would
only display in a constrained aspect ratio. The first thing I would
think as a user was "what happened to the cursor?" If the user had
selected a tool or something, perhaps then I could understand changing
the cursor.
Personally, I really don't think you really need to do anything at all.
If they resize it, they will see that it is confined. If they read the
manual (stop laughing at me) then they will know for sure.
Just my 2 cents...
Cheers,
Lloyd
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