On 25 May 2004 at 12:45, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 25 May 2004, at 07:48 AM, Phil Daley wrote: > > > At 5/24/2004 02:46 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > > > > >Oo, I'll take this one! If I can SEE a tool, and be able to click > > >on it easily, while seeing the score underneath it, this saves > > >mondo clicking to un-shade and re-shade the tool palette. If it > > >takes one click to roll down the window shade, then I have to move > > >the mouse to the tool, then move the mouse to re-shade again, > > >that's three clicks and some index movement that I would be able to > > >replace with one click and little or no mouse movement. > > > > Nope. No clicks involved with "Windows" Enhanced Secondary Windows > > (roll ups or ESWs). > > > > Just move the mouse over them and they pop open, move the mouse away > > and they roll up. > > Regardless, I would still have to move the mouse to the top of the > window to get it to expand, right? And if I accidentally mouse off of > the window, it collapses immediately, right? I don't see how that's > better than an automatically fading transparent palette, where I can > always (faintly) see the control I want to adjust and move directly to > that part of the palette. And I think a gradual fade-away after I > move the mouse back is more elegant and intuitive than an abrupt > window collapse.
Well, you're assuming that the roll-up is immediate and happens as soon as the mouse is off the window. If the transparency can be programmed to fade, the roll-up can be programmed to be delayed until a certain time after the mouse is off the window. I don't know exactly how those are implemented, but it's always possible. I do have a question: is the gradual fade out something that's provided by OS X's transparency support? I note that Windows does not provide roll-up windows natively, so we're not really comparing the same kind of thing. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
