Re: [Plplot-devel] Pause behavior while minimized

[Jim D. <ji...@di...>]

Makes sense to me. I might make it an option on the wingdi to test the concept. 

Minimized is the same concept as iconified. 

> On Jun 21, 2017, at 2:29 AM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-06-21 00:26-0400 James Dishaw wrote:
>> 
>> I have been working on a wingcc bug that was reported and I am not sure what
>> the correct behavior should be for a pause when a window is minimized.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I think the correct behavior is that a minimized window should be treated
>> like a normal window (in Windows a minimized window is given a size of
>> 160x31).  That would mean pauses are honored and a user would need to
>> restore the window in order to advance the page.
> [...]
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Hi Jim:
> 
> I think pause should be honored completely independent of any windows
> manipulations that are being done.  I am unfamiliar with the concept
> of Windows minimized windows, but on Linux desktops you can resize the
> window, iconify it, etc., and for the case when a plot is paused and
> such manipulations occur, then I would expect the pause to still be in
> effect when the window is restored. So the above alternative seems the
> correct choice to me.
> 
> Alan
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