Re: Fitt's law, was: Re: NSToolbar (was Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep<---> Cocoa...)

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

> Where in the Microsoft world toolbar are located at the _very_ egde of the 
> screen and not _just close_ to it?

I never said anything about Microsoft. But actually, near is better than 
anywhere.
Since you can still control your habit by moving mouse down a bit after it 
reached
the position.

> At first this egde near thing holds only true if the application is set to 
> full screen mode, otherwise those toolbars sit at the egde of the _window_ 
> which has no benefit.

Sorry I have no idea about full screen thingy on Windows. I never really use it.
I was talking about Adobe's application on OSX (ie. Acrobat reader) since
we are discussing NSToolbar.

> At second the active areas of the tool button and the taskbar buttons dont 
> reach to the _very_ egde of the screen. So you won't fullfill Fitt's law this 
> way.

And who cares? Did you even pay attention to my ascii-art example?
a shot I mocked months ago. http://maliwan.sourceforge.net/nstoolbar.jpg
(don't tell me it's ugly since I've heard enough) and the previous discussion.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2003-10/msg00147.html
I made some errors in that discussion on those windows that may not take focus.
{Which could be solved by making the toolbar at the top of those windows
(and don't tell me that's nasty because I've heard enough, I just tell why
I am not against toolbar at the top of the screen)}

> readings on this:
>
> http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
>
> http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html (the paragraph on fitt's 
> law (actually spelled Fitts's Law within this document, if you want to search 
> for it))

Thank you. And I'm glad you read it.