Re: expanding the view area of a window - please help
Re: expanding the view area of a window - please help
- Subject: Re: expanding the view area of a window - please help
- From: John Blackburn <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:50:50 -0800
Zooming to full-screen challenges any approach that requires the window
to grow to accommodate new content. If your window is zoomable to
full-screen and you offer such widgets, whether drawers or
window-stretching, you've got a design problem.
One solution is to borrow the needed space from an existing view by
shrinking that view as needed and placing the new view in the
newly-freed space. Project Builder's tab controls do this; so do the
tabs in Internet Explorer This solution creates its own problems if the
existing view has been resized to a small area, so the choice of drawer
vs. subdivision should reflect whether your users are likely to have
their windows zoomed to maximum or minimum sizes.
John Blackburn
On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 10:45 PM, Carlos Weber wrote:
On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 08:40 , John Blackburn wrote:
Drawers also fail miserably when the window is zoomed to full-screena
serious drawback for applications where you're viewing something that
requires a lot of screen space. Sure, you can shrink the window
appropriate to provide enough room for the drawer to appear, but the
effect is weird and counter-intuitive.
Well, but how is the other option ( increasing the size of the window
with some sort of animation ) any better in this situation? Unless
everything in your window is enclosed in a scrollview you are sunk in
either case.
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