From: Herouth Maoz (herouth@OUMAIL.OPENU.AC.IL)
Date: 14 Feb 99, 20:23 EST
From: Herouth Maoz <herouth@OUMAIL.OPENU.AC.IL> Subject: Re: 'zoom' in Alpha At 2:03 +0200 on 11/2/99, Masatsugu Nagata wrote: > Hmm... That reminds me: Finder 'zoom' its windows differently: > > If we click the zoombox of Finder's window, the window is resized so that > it just fits the current contents. > If we option-click the zoombox of Finder's window, the window is zoomed > fullscreen, regardless of the window content. > > Isn't _this_ the "Mac way"? Because it's done like that only in the Finder. The finder has good reason for it, too - it has contents which have a certain size, both width and height. So it makes sense to define the application's "standard size" as "the minimal size that shows the entire window". Photoshop does the same. It's a bit different for text editors. Those usually have an indefinite length. And some wrap words according to the width of the window, much like SimpleText, so they don't have a defined width, either. Alpha, too, doesn't exactly have a defined width. The default window width is not necessarily where the text ends on line. In short, "zoom" means "show as much as possible", and so in most cases, when the object being shown doesn't have a small well-defined size, this simply means "give the user as big an area as possible". Herouth -- Herouth Maoz, Internet developer. Open University of Israel - Telem project http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma