Re: Question on NSToolbar

[David Chisnall]

On 3 Jan 2009, at 10:02, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 3 Jan 2009, at 09:51, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
>
> > Fred Kiefer wrote:
> >
> > > I would expect that we always have the menu as the topmost view in  
> > > the
> > > window, then the toolbar and last the actual contents view.  
> > > Currently
> > > the toolbar increases the size of the window, when switched on. It  
> > > could
> > > as well decrease the size of the contents view. Which should we
> > > implement in the future?
> >
> > Stick to the Mac OS X behavior which is to increase the window's  
> > height
> > and leave the content size as well as the window frame's origin  
> > unchanged.
>
> I agree ... but it would be good to test what actually happens on  
> MacOS-X, and if the window is resized we should cope with parts of  
> the winodw going off screen in the same way as MacOS-X

OS X keeps the top of the window in the same place and grows the body  
downwards, except in the case where the body is already near the  
bottom of the screen, in which case it grows the top upwards.

If a window with a toolbar is the height of the screen or more then  
its size is not reduced when the toolbar is hidden, nor increased when  
the toolbar is added.  In both of these cases, the views are resized.

Such a simple feature, so many special cases.  I don't know if we need  
to reproduce all of them, but I can't see any significant reasons why  
not.

David