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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Splitted view for KOffice apps?
From:       Werner Trobin <wtrobin () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-27 19:37:00
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Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
> 
> > >If you get the "split window" by using a menu command, you don't know how
> > >to:
> > >1) unsplit the window. Add a menu command? Not easy. If you have TWO
> > >splits, how do you know which split will be removed?
> >
> > You could always use a checked menu... Select "Split Window" and it splits
> > in two equal pieces and checks the menu. Select it again and it returns
> > everything to normal. Why not have the black handle *and* the menu option???
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> On further thought, the Split Window command should remember the
> user's last choice (where possible, saved with the document) of split
> position, and only revert back to 50/50 for a new document that has
> never been split before.

Huh... this will get pretty hacky, when we'd try to achieve that :)
I'm not sure if this would be worth all the trouble.

Because of the doc/view model you are able to have multiple views
(at the moment this means "windows"). Whenever you'll be able to
split the view of one window (currently keeps crashing, will have to
investigate :) it's impossible for the programm to know which "layout"
to save.... and then he hack comes to my mind we'd have to
introduce saving information from the shell (=window) to the document.
Brrrr.... :(

Sorry, but this is not feasible, IMHO.
 
> Can we just recap something here? Can a document be split into more
> than two frames? (Obviously there is no technical reason it can't be,
> but from a UI point of view, do we allow it?)

It's possible - you can even have horizontal and vertical splitters.
(Not at the same time, though - either all are horiz. or vert.)

> If there can only be a maximum of two frames, then everything is
> pretty straight forward. If we allow multiple splits (giving three or
> more frames) then things become more complex.
> 
> I vote for allowing multiple splits. The Unsplit command hides all
> frames except the first one. Choosing Split again reverts back to how
> ever many frames were previously there.
> 
> Dragging the black handle creates a single new frame. Dragging it
> again resizes the frame. To create a new frame, ctrl-drag the black
> handle.

Don't know if I can track the splitter (the line between the two
views)...

BTW: Thanks for forwarding!

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Werner Trobin - wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com

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