Re: "dockable" windows

[Adam Fedor]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:28, Uli Kusterer wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>  recently in that hullabaloo about toolbars, I mentioned the idea of 
> "dockable" windows. In principle, what I meant was having different 
> areas of a window that could be "torn out" and be made their own 
> windows, and re-assembled to the user's liking.
> 
>  Just to test whether this is possible at all, I sat down with Cocoa and 
> implemented a first, crude, basic version in xCode. You can find it at
> 
>    http://www.zathras.de/UKDockableWindow.zip
> 
>  Basically, it is an implementation of a view class that you can drag 
> onto the desktop to get a new window, and you can drag it back into a 
> window to have its own window disappear.
> 


I actually tried this out on GNUstep, and it *almost* works as is,
except for an unimplemented selector 'isHidden' (for NSView?) and
another null selector. I didn't really have a chance to go figure out
what that meant.  It's also a little slow and jumpy moving the views
around, but that's probably a GNUstep problem.

Sounds like a neat idea though.