Re: NSTitleView class

[Michael Hanni]

Hi Serg,

Pretty nifty. A few comments...

--- Serg Stoyan <stoyan@on.com.ua> wrote:
> - *.tiff - images for close and miniaturize button (title buttons now
>   bordered and images support this, so it isn't WindowMaker style but 
>   OPENSTEP style);

These images are corrupted. GNUstep barfs with, "Tiff Error (GSTiffReadData)
Cannot read TIFF header".

> Why I create this class:
> 1. It can be used by NSMenuView, NSWindow and so on.
> 2. It can be used by Login-style applications (that is, before any window
>    manager's loaded) to create own panels/windows which can be moved
>    around.
> 3. It can be used by GNUstep ObjectiveC window managers (e.g. Interface).

All good points...

> 4. It helps keeping consistent look and feel across the environments.

I see you are in the Alex Malmberg camp on this one. :)

> But this is the simplest part of implementation, I guess. Next important
> thing is to make NSWindow using NSTitleView.
> 
> But anyway, what do you think about adding this non-standard (Cocoa
> and OpenStep doesn't have this) class? Should I commit it to CVS? Is there
> any problems or difficulties I missed?

NSTitleView is a little vague isn't it? Maybe something like, um,
NSWindowTitleView would be a little more descriptive?

Oh, one more thing, bump the periodic events period to 0.03 and the windows
will move a little smoother. After testing my original patch I found that 0.02
wasn't quite long enough to allow the move notifications to propagate --
atleast on my machine.

If we move to using this as the title bar for GNUstep windows would you
consider implementing document icons in the title bar (like MacOS X)? You know,
where you can drag the icon out of the bar and drop it on the desktop or where
ever. I always thought that would be cool. :)

Also, should we own the resize bar on the bottom of the window as well then?

Cheerio,

Michael