Re: IB Woes
Re: IB Woes
- Subject: Re: IB Woes
- From: "David W. Halliday" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 20:08:30 -0500
Douglas Davidson wrote:
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 05:03 PM, The Amazing Llama wrote:
How big is your parent window? You may not be able to set the height
of the
drawer any taller than the parent window to which it is attached.
This is indeed the problem; making with parent window taller makes
the drawer resizable. How annoying.
Anyone know a way to get around this?
It's a fundamental constraint on drawers--part of the definition, in
fact--that a drawer cannot be larger than its parent. It has to fit
inside, after all.
This sounds like it's a prime example of what Apple's early User
Interface guidelines warned about: Overly literal adherence to an
interface metaphor (like only allowing a limited number of folders
within folders, since /real/ folders have such limitations). Shame on
Apple.
(Actually, from what I remember of my reading of the documentation
[I'm too tired, right now, to read it again, so I may well be wrong],
the limitation for a bottom of window drawers is the width: It cannot
be any wider than the parent, since having it be wider would look
"really bad". [Actually, isn't the width constrained to be the same as
the parent, or can it be less, so it's coming from a portion of the
bottom of the parent.])
Douglas Davidson
David Halliday
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