Re: [Usability] Drag handles for dialogs and other windows

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:29:19 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>
> To: John Levon <levon movementarian org>
> Cc: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Drag handles for dialogs and other windows
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, John Levon wrote:
>
> > > of a dialog that important? Shouldn't the dialog just be designed not to
> > > need resizing?
> >
> > How do you do that when the dialog contains a list box or similar ?
>
> If the dialog contains a listbox, it should:

what you really want is something much more complicated to develop but far
more usable.

say you have a dialog with three items
the middle of which is a listbox

you probably want the other two items to stay fixed but for the listbox to
reflow to fit the aviable space.

If have forgotten too much Java AWT layout but an evne simpler example is
in HTML where you can specify frame (and tables i think) rows like so
rows=100,*,100

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/