Re: non inplace components

[Christopher James Lahey <clahey umich edu>]

On 8 Nov 1999, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> >     I can see it being useful.  Imagine the following scenario: You
> > embed an image in your word processor document.  And you want to edit
> > it, but at a higher zoom level.  So you create a non-in-place view of
> > the component at a higher zoom.  It opens in a separate window and
> > edits in that window are reflected in the in-place subdocument.
> 
> Well, I feel this to be quite far fetched...
> I don't know. Do you really believe that users would be able to use this ?
> I don't think that users are dumb but if they are as good as me at understanding
> the way a word processor works, then you don't have a chance to get them to use 
> such a feature.
> Perhaps this would be natural to users acustomized to such a system...
> 
> Mathieu

This sounds fairly common actually.  I remember embedding excel
spreadsheets in word documents.  When I wanted to edit the excel
spreadsheet, I would often want to edit them in a full screen excel
window.  This was achieved by double clicking, I believe. (It's been a
while.)

I'm not sure if this is quite what you mean about having a component that
can be edited both in place and externally, but it seems close.
  Chris