Hi!
> The info area scales nicely in Classical mode, but it is
> broken in docked mode. Lots of empty spaces gets added
> above/below it. Probably a problem in board size
> calculation?
> Do you have a gap over 40 pixels ? If no, it is normal.
Well, its a bit difficult to count, but I'd guess that it is
beyond 40. Yes.
> F12/Ctrl-F12 is broken in docked mode, it works again in
> Classical, however. I'd guess a more general problem, but
> I'm not sure if it only happens with "non-global"
> hotkeys.
>
> If depends upon the focus. This shortcut has to be known by all
> toplevels, and the mouse must be inside one of them.
Hm, I admit that focus makes some sense with individual
windows, but it is a bit strange in docked mode. But even if
I try to "focus" the board tab, Ctrl-F12 does not work.
> Restore layout:
>
> What about tree windows? If I store a layout with two
> tree tabs open they get restored but no DB is displayed
> within. However, if I manually reopen the associated DB I
> just got:
>
> invalid command name ".treeWin2.buttons.lock"
[...]
> Fixed. Note that it had nothing to do with the docking mode.
This could be, there couldn't be a window without associated
DB in classic mode.
> IMHO it is not really sensible to open up large reference
> DBs automatically on program startup for the tree
> windows, as it just takes quite some time.
>
> If the Tree was saved, we can think it was with a good
> reason. Right now the base is not reopened, but it is not
> consistent with the idea of saving the window.
Ah. Ok, I see you've a different philosophy here.
>
> Most likely
> the save layout should store a bit more abstract: "tree
> windows give new tabs in this area".
>
> Don't understand.
Well, one could have a split window and assing the say upper
right area to "tree tabs" and have all trees open there.
> Talking about the tree window: unfortunately they do not
> hook up to the geometry manager. In former versions, as
> there was only one tree and no mask were available, this
> was ok, but I think with recent functional enhancements
> they should hook up to the geometry manager properly.
>
> Ok, nice idea, do it.
I can try, to.
> (BTW: the trees are currently the only case where I can see
> some advantage for tabs, ie. all trees opening in one
> individual window, but a new one as a tab in front of the
> last one opened.)
>
> I completely disagree with you.
I know that you disagree. This is no probelm as long as you
leave the Classic mode there and keep it working :)
> The new mode is far better on every aspect.
Nope ;) Absolutely not. Its much worse in any aspect.
Lets leave this. I think we can and _should_ have both.
If you want to unify them, just get this docked stuff to
handle undocked windows like the geometry manager and
save/restore them properly. It would just be hard to me to
fall back to Fritz window handling. As I said, my usual
setup just does not fit on the screen in docked mode.
(Simply cause I can not overlap docks.)
> [...]
>
> Some of the tab headers are actually a bit useless and
> and, summed up, eat up quite some space. I'm not sure if
> idividual tabs can come without a tab header at all.
> Candidates for removal of the tab are IMHO at least "Game
> notation", "Board", "DB Switcher". Probably a good
> algorithm would be to remove the tab header once a tab is
> alone within it's respective frame. In this case it is
> usesless and it could come back once another tab opens in
> that frame.
>
> And then how do you move the tab ? How do you close the
> window ? (there is no "X" at the upper right corner).
Hm, maybe by a small 2px hight handle? Docked mode pretty
much copies the Fritz GUI, I think they solve it that way.
> In case I want to add the ability to be a tab to the
> windows my small contributions generate,
>
> ?? Don't understand anything.
Well a short howto, to add the ability to have a window
dockable. I do not know how you did it and I do not like to
fetch the most complex example just by sheer chance ;) The
most simple will do.
> where would I have to look up how to do it? Ie. the
> most simple example out of the many parts.
> ??
A howto. If I want to support docking for the CC window and
the Input Engine window, where is the most simple example I
could look up how you did it. If I pick a window by random
chances are good that I take one that has this or that
extras.
> [...]
>
> Note that the docked windows does not work well on Windows
Now, I'm utterly confused.
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