Re: Mac stuff

On Jan 22, 2005, at 11:48, Roger Binns wrote:

> BTW You could also have mentioned the hideous toolbar!

I am trying to work on that somewhat. I got the override of 
wx.ArtProvider working, but there is a problem that I noticed when the 
toolbar is created. When you set the bitmap size to say, 32x32, the 
size reported to the overridden function is actually 36x36. The only 
way around this is setting the image size to 28x28 and the size 
reported to the function is 32x32. Anyways, my images look hopeless in 
either case. I tried PNG, XPM, and BMP and they all look bad. They look 
reasonable on my Windows box although I have issues with transparency.

> I still haven't figured out how to really work well with lots of 
> windows.  On Linux I use virtual desktops.  On Windows I have a
> dual screen setup and the taskbar works really well.  On Mac the
> dock doesn't really do it for me.  For example if I have two
> terminal windows open, I want to select them individually.  I
> also tried a virtual desktop program, but it wouldn't let me
> move windows around by dragging them in the panner.  So I'll
> keep trying things until I find something that works.

Have you tried using Expose? I think the commands are usually bound to 
F8, F9, and F10. I usually have my bottom left desktop hot corner set 
to show all windows, and the bottom right one set to show the desktop. 
I started using it once I got my Mac, and I find that I make the 
gestures even on my Windows box.

If you don't like the way it works, there are virtual desktop managers 
for OS X: http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/ and 
http://virtuedesktops.sourceforge.net/

Adit



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