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Re: Panes vs. Separate Windows
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Re: Panes vs. Separate Windows


  • Subject: Re: Panes vs. Separate Windows
  • From: Dave <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:48:19 +0000

> On 11 Jan 2016, at 16:15, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Way back in the mid '90s, there was some double click tool that simply felt like the holy grail to me.
>
> You double clicked or option clicked on the title of a window and it would turn that window into the "floating windoid" title bar only.  We took this model and made it so that when you collapsed a window in that manner, it moved the tiny title bar up below the last one you collapsed. When restored, it resumed its previous position.
>
> This way, you could see all of of your windows and hide and retrieve them in an instant.  And they only took up a small and organized portion of the screen when collapsed.
>
> I loved it.  I was simple, fast, organized and remembered how you positioned things previously.

Yes, it was really good tool. Also the way in which CodeWarrior handled windows in general was developer heaven and sooooooo much better than XCode.

XCode seems to suffer from alzheimer’s when it comes to remembering things like window positions, the annoying thing is, it *used* to remember them nicely in XCode 3, sigh…….


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 >Panes vs. Separate Windows (From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Panes vs. Separate Windows (From: Dave <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Panes vs. Separate Windows (From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>)

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