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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: how to configure view-follows-view ?
From:       Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-08-20 14:59:55
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tomas Cernaj wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > > My view on this is to allow the user to drag and drop the frame of any of
> > > the would be slave views to the master view.  This action can then trigger a
> > > configuration dialog box of some sort that would allow the user to configure
> > > the stuff.  Some default key+mouse combination can also be used to perform a
> > > preset (default) binding action without the dialog box being popped up
> > > every time.  For example a CTRL+ LMB DND would make the dragged view the Slave
> > > and the receiving view the Master using some default setting.  Additionally the
> > > user can invoke the same sequence through a right click on the view-frame of
> > > each view to get a popup menu, much the same way as the RMB popup menu
> > > in kpanel.
> > 
> > I don't think that DND is a solution which is intuitive for this.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Waldo
> 
> Do you know the way how text frames are chained together in QuarkXPress
> (similar in CorelDraw) ? There's a chain symbol in the corner of every
> text frame, and you just pick that symbol with your mouse, drag it into
> the second text frame and voilą: the text from the first frame flows
> into the other frame.
> 
> I think this could be a pretty cool way to specify Master-->Slave
> bindings. Dragging with LMB activates the default binding while RMB
> opens up a context menu.
> 
> Opinions?

That's quite exactly what I thought when I mentioned Matthias Elter's dnd
idea.
:-)

Bye,
 Simon
 
> cu, Tomas
> tcernaj@stud-mailer.uni-marburg.de
> 

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