RE: [ jEdit-users ] RFE: behavior of floating windows

[Kent, C. - e. <ck...@es...>]

Slava

Surely it would be possible to figure out when a window is maximised or
restored by using ComponentListener.componentResized (listening to the
window) and Frame.getExtendedState?

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Slava Pestov [mailto:sl...@je...]
Sent: 13 October 2003 22:59
To: jed...@li...
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] RFE: behavior of floating windows


On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 01:05, Jabel D. Morales wrote:
> Hi.
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> I have been using jEdit for at leat a year now and I am a big fan of it.
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Thanks.

> 1. make the floating windows minimize and maximize with the main window.
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> think this is self explanatory.  Right now the floating windows are
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> independent to the main editor window, meaning that it is possible to have
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> floating windows on display while having the editor window minimized.  It
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> sense to assume that if the user minimizes the editor window, there is no
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> to display the floating windows.  Similarly if the user restores the main=
 > window, it makes sense to assume that the floating windows will be desir=
ed
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> the screen.

Java does not actually fire an event when a window is maximized or
restored... I'm not sure if this is possible. On the other hand
minimizing dockables with the view is easy.

> 2. minimize the floating windows when the editor window is not active.
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> similar to how palettes work in the Mac environment, and helps in the
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> fight against screen clutter (especially for those like me who uses large=
 > fonts).  Of course this is being very picky, and is not as useful as
suggestion 1.

Again this is problematic. How do you define "not active"? When no view
has focus? What about modal dialog boxes, or plugin windows which are
not dockable?

> 3. if the plugins are floating, have all the editor views use the same
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> windows.  As it is right now, if I have more than one view, it means that
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> to have more than one BufferList window, more than one SideKick window,
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> than one Console window, etc., one for each editor view.  This can get
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> confusing to use especially since there is no visual difference between
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> of the same plugin, so it is very easy to use the plugin window that
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> with the undesired editor view.

This is something I plan on adding. Since it will require API additions,
it will only appear in 4.3.
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Slava Pestov


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