From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T04:32:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox --> GTK  ?

gabriele renzi wrote:
> il Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:11:33 +0900, Hal Fulton
> <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> ha scritto::
> 
> 
> 
>>I was discussing this with someone last night. A notebook is
>>inappropriate because the underlying metaphor is a bunch of small notes
>>on a bulletin board.
>>
>>These aren't open docs as such. They are tiny notes, perhaps up to 20
>>or so visible at a time.
>>
>>I'm thinking of just having real windows for them, but I hate losing the
>>"containment" of the notes.
> 
> 
> I wonder if you could use some kind of Canvas for this. It seem better
> to me that plain windows..

I thought of something like that -- draw the little windows on a canvas,
and when you click on one to edit it, turn it into a "real" widget in
the same spot.

It's kind of cheating, though. And it sounds computationally expensive.
And moving/resizing the notes would be a problem.

Hal