From: Herouth Maoz (herouth@OUMAIL.OPENU.AC.IL)
Date: 11 Feb 99, 02:06 EST
From: Herouth Maoz <herouth@OUMAIL.OPENU.AC.IL> Subject: Re: 'zoom' in Alpha At 9:29 +0200 on 10/2/99, Masatsugu Nagata wrote: > $defWidth is used for new windows. However, once the window is > moved/resized, there seems to be NO way to easily move it back to this > "default" position/size. 'zoom' only moves the window to fullscreen, > which is NOT the $defWidth. Well, to me it seems OK. Normally, the zoom - as in "window zoom" zooms a document window to fullscreen. Alpha has the (good, IMHO) ability to define what a fullscreen is, so that I can have floaters around it without obscuring the windows. This has nothing to do with the default window size. Launch SimpleText. It opens a new document, or you can do command-N for yourself. These windows are in "default" size. Now press the zoom box. It opens up to full page. Press it again - returns to previous size. Resize the SimpleText window to something different. Press the zoom box - full screen again. Press it again - returns to your resized size, NOT to the default size. That is, there is a default size, a resized size, and a "standard" (HIG term) size, which is the fullscreen one, and it's perfectly Macintosh never to return to the default size. But what if you want to? Nothing simpler, in Alpha. Just use "Single Page" - option-command-slash (as opposed to command-slash which is by default "zoom"). Where are the problems? 1) Why call it "single page", when in reality it's "default size" and has nothing whatsoever to do with pages? 2) If option-cmd-/ is, in fact, option-zoom, and actually, the menu item "zoom" is replaced with "single page" when pressing option, then why does pressing option and clicking the zoom box not have the same effect? Herouth -- Herouth Maoz, Internet developer. Open University of Israel - Telem project http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma