drawer shrinkage

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Sun Sep 14 15:31:00 EDT 2003


Hi Scott,

> I have been unable to get the drawers feature to open repeatedly at
> certain sizes.  Perhaps this is a feature of drawers but, if so, I have
> yet to grasp the rule. I notice that the drawer shrinks slightly (in
> relation to the edge it is being drawn into) each time it is closed and
> reopened. Eventually it reaches a stable size. I didn't notice 
> anything on
> this list or in Bugzilla so perhaps I'm missing something. (Though
> Richmond Mathewsons' "Drawers" example does not suffer from this it 
> will
> if the drawer stacks are enlarged.) Is this expected behavior?  Is 
> there a
> workaround?

This is a (already reported) bug.

The workaround is to set the height (looks like its only the height 
that shrinks...)
BEFORE you open the drawer like:

set the height of stack "draw1" to 256
drawer stack "draw1" at...

> -Scott Morrow
> elementarysoftware.com

Hope that helps...

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de




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