Re: Utility window architecture question
Re: Utility window architecture question
- Subject: Re: Utility window architecture question
- From: Brendan Younger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:32:05 -0500
On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 03:05 PM, Brock Brandenberg wrote:
On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 01:30 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
Why not? I'd do it that way, probably with a middleware support for
automatic adding the panes whenever a bundle containing them is
loaded, and perhaps even with a possibility to tear out a tab into a
separate window like Final Cut Pro does. I do like this kind of
distributed architecture, did it many times myself, and must say that
Cocoa/ObjC is just the ideal environment for such things.
Ondra, tearing out a tab is a great idea. I too like the Adobe
implementations similar to this in Photoshop. Glen suggested using tabs
also (tabless ones at that, which is good because I have limited room
until we get east and west tabs in Cocoa... just need to add icons or
buttons to switch), and it seems like a cleaner and quicker way to swap
views than manually adding/retaining/removing content views.
I hate to throw down a good idea like this, but Adobe actually has a
patent on this "technology". They just finished suing Macromedia over
it (and I have not idea what FCP has it, maybe they licensed it), but
you ought to check the legality of it first.
Brendan Younger
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