Re: ChatWindow Toolbar Items

Ok, it seems that with the exception of Alan, the consensus is to leave 
them in the toolbar.  So, since I already wired it up that way, it will 
just stay.  (Aren't you glad I asked?).  But, I do want to add one 
single button on the right side of the status area.  This button will 
be 14 pixels high, and 32 wide.  It will use some of the status text 
area, but that is it.  I don't want to say quite yet what it does, 
because the inspiration of its full implications just hit me about 20 
minutes ago (amazing how well you mind works after an exam.  Now if 
only it work that way during the exam ;) ) and I want to mull over it a 
bit longer.  I will only say that it one of the best ideas I have had 
for Fire, and I am sure most of you will find it terribly useful.  
Alan, we will definitely need to find a good way to make a command key 
equivalent to this (and what to call the thing).

Programming Note:  If ANYONE knows how to draw NSView elements inside 
an NSCell, please email me.  I am going to have to figure this out soon 
to do what I want, and my usual google searching didn't yield very 
much.  Basically, I want to be able to lay out a few view items inside 
an NSCell.  I was thinking of subclassing NSCell, then passing the 
frame from drawInteriorWithFrame to an offscreen NSView, drawn in IB, 
to do the job, but I have no idea if this will work.  Anyone know?  
Otherwise I am going to have to find another way to do this.


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Graham Booker		Texas A&M University
[email protected]	  Graduate Student in ELEN
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On Oct 22, 2003, at 1:43 PM, Graham Booker wrote:

> In my excursion into modifying the chat windows, it occurred to me 
> that I may want to change some of the UI as well.  I noticed that the 
> toolbar seemed to become a catch-all for many things.  Basically, 
> unless anyone has some serious objections, I would like to move the 
> following items out of the toolbar and into the right side of the 
> status text area (bottom of the chat window).
>
> Foreground text color
> Background text color
> Send Message
> Emoticon Menu (assuming I can get a menu working there)
> Fonts
> and maybe add in an insert hyperlink button.
>
> These icon would be quite small, and only occupy a little bit of the 
> status message text.  This would not increase the size of the 
> chatwindows.  Think of it as being placed in a row just to the left of 
> the grow box.
>
>
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