dragging 2 windows in synch

[Scott Morrow]

Thank you for that excellent suggestion!  I may have been missing the 
forest for the drawer in this case as this seems such an obvious 
solution... now that you point it out.  I do like that drawers can open 
from different edges depending what the user might find most 
convenient.  In this case, where I'm  doing something that might 
ordinarily be done with a popup menu - if the list of items weren't so 
big -  having it scroll up without taking the window's handle with it 
is the detractor from simply resizing the stack to show the list.

-Scott Morrow
Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust !)
web     http://elementarysoftware.com/
email   scott at elementarysoftware.com

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Richard Gaskin wrote:
> It may be simpler and more consistent with the UI expectations for 
> your  users to just use a collapsable panel with a disclosure triangle 
> instead.  In most cases where an OS X drawer would work a collapsable 
> panel will work just as well, and the convention is universally 
> accepted on all modern platforms (even OS X).
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin

>> On 8/31/04 9:34 PM, "Scott Morrow" <scott at elementarysoftware.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Is there a technique to maintain the relative location of a secondary
>>> stack while dragging the primary stack.  I'm not looking to just 
>>> update
>>> the window location after the move has completed but to visually  
>>> drag
>>> it along with the window that the user is moving.  I'm building
>>> routines for simulating drawer behaviors outside of OSX.
>> Well, if it's for OS 9, you're probably out of luck unless you make 
>> your own
>> custom windows and your own drag regions. The reason is that the 
>> moveStack
>> message isn't sent until *after* you release the mouse on the Mac. 
>> Now if
>> this is for Windows, moveStack and resizeStack are sent continually 
>> so you
>> could probably get away with something like:
>> on moveWindow
>>   set the topLeft of stack "Secondary" to the topRight of this stack
>> end moveWindow