skin variables suggestion

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joethezombie
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skin variables suggestion

Postby joethezombie » 09 Feb 2007 18:51

In another thread we were talking about user defined boolean variables. I have another suggestion:

- Include current window size (width and height) as variables sizeX and sizeY.
- Allow < and > operations for the visible attribute.

now, using something like visible="sizeX > 200" we can do some really interesting things like hide controls unless the window is large enough to display them.

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Postby ipkiss » 10 Feb 2007 00:25

I'm not convinced by this one. This would only avoid displaying part of the control when it doesn't fit completely in the window. I think this is not a good behaviour for a GUI, because it doesn't leave any clue to the user that the window would have more controls if its size was increased...

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Postby joethezombie » 10 Feb 2007 00:32

Fair enough...

A real world example of this would be the iTunes interface-- while in compact mode if one resizes the window small, the "media info" control disappears. I was looking for similar functionality. Ah well.


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