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Re: PBI: tear-off tab items?
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Re: PBI: tear-off tab items?


  • Subject: Re: PBI: tear-off tab items?
  • From: Eric Wang <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:40:14 -0500

on 2/25/03 1:53 PM, Rich Morin at email@hidden wrote:

> In playing with NSTabViews, I find myself wishing that I could allow the
> user to "tear off" a tab and drag it to another part of the screen. This
> would let her bounce back and forth between the tabs more easily. Is this
> capability (a) impossible, (b) crazy, or (c) unnecessary (and why)?

(d) Illegal. Adobe has a patent on this type of interface. See for yourself:

http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&;
u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,546,528'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,546,528&RS=
PN/5,546,528

Eric Wang
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