Re: FVWM: Windowmaker like resize with modifier?

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:27:05 +0100

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:14:51PM -0700, S. Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:57:50PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:16:58PM +0100, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
> > > Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > >
> > > >The code may even generate a division by zero. I guess what you
> > > >want is roughly this:
> > > >
> > > > tl t tr
> > > > +---+----+---+
> > > > |__ \ / __|
> > > > l| \__\/__/ |r
> > > > |__/ /\ \__|
> > > > | / \ |
> > > > +---+----+---+
> > > > bl b br
> > >
> > > I am not sure which version is better to handle: This one or another one
> > > with just the corners tl, tr, bl, br. I guess you have to try it in
> > > "real-life" to find this out.
> > >
> > > >Should not be too hard to write.
> > >
>
> What do you think about a resize that works like this:
>
> When you click "alt mouse2" and then move the mouse left, the window
> grows to the left, and then if you move the mouse right without
> releasing the mouse button the window grows smaller. And if your initial
> mouse movement is right, the window will grow to the right, etc...
>
> so the resize action will start immediatly upon mouse movment, without
> having to touch a border first, and without warping the cursor to the
> border.
>
> do you think this would be easy to implement, or would it require some
> major rewriting?

Not very difficult, but we should not add another mouse specific
modifier. That feature would be more important for use with the
keyboard.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Feb 25 2003 - 01:26:16 GMT

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