Re: A start at adding "tiling inside quadrants" to dmg-quadrants.jl

[Pat Regan <thehead patshead com>]

I threw this up for someone else.  Its a screencast of me moving some 
chat windows into a tiled quadrant on the left:

http://patshead.com/flv/Misc/tiling.html

On 01/07/2010 07:22 PM, Pat Regan wrote:
> I have a barely working attempt at making my tiling idea work.  It still
> needs some hooks to rearrange the tiling when a window is closed or
> moved, so it isn't terribly functional yet.
>
> I tacked on an extra option to the items in the dmg-quadrants variable.
>    "none" means it works just like it always did.  "vertical" tiles
> windows vertically inside the quadrant, "horizontal" is not implemented.
>
> If a quadrant is marked "vertical," the first window pushed into the
> quadrant will occupy the whole quadrant.  When a second window is pushed
> into the quadrant, each window will be resized to half the height of the
> quadrant and positioned appropriately.
>
> After watching it working properly, I had a new thought.  I'm thinking
> maybe instead of having picking and choosing which quadrants to tile
> that there should be a function that tiles the windows in an existing
> quadrant.
>
> I through a temporary copy of my work in progress up on my web server:
>
> http://patshead.com/tmp/dmg-quadrants.jl
>
> Again, it isn't very usable right now.  It really only demonstrates the
> thought I am chasing after.
>
> Pat