Thank you Andrew
By glazou on Wednesday 16 June 2004, 10:06 - Nvu - Permalink
People, I got the formal agreement from Andrew Fedoniouk, Blocknote for Net's author, to reuse the UI metaphor he implemented for table column/row resizing. I already started working on it, it's going to be a marvelous feature for Nvu. Thank you so much Andrew.
Update: here is a screenshot. The horizontal and vertical rulers show the positions and sizes of the rows and columns of the table. Everything can be manipulated with the mouse. It's really neat, and it's MUCH simpler to implement in Gecko's model than the common click-on-borders model.
Comments
Booknote? isn't it called blocknote?
[Note de Daniel]/me is tired...thanks.[/Note de Daniel]
Any chance of a screenshot(s) of the UI for this metaphor??
When you mentioned it before, the website didn't have any useful screenshots to demonstrate it!! It just mentioned how easy it was to use (which wouldn't be very helpful to a new user checking if it would be worth trialing).
I second that!
I guess this is what you guys are looking for:
www.blocknote.net/info/ru...
Gare aux brevets...celà m'étonnerait que MS n'ai pas encore breveté ce type de manipulation des cellules via les rulers :-< (si l'on en juge par les derniers dépots de brevet des sus-nommés).
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On ne peut que te féliciter d'avoir contacté Andrew avant de réutiliser le principe mais à tu pensé à Bill ?;-) car d'après le snapshot ca ressemble bigrement au principe disponible sous Word depuis des années pour le multicolonnage et les tableaux (bon ceci dit la manipulation par clic sur les bordures est aussi dispo dans word depuis des années donc tu dois par risquer beaucoup plus:-)
Cdlt,
[short translation for english people - sorry if my english is so bad]
It's a good thing that Daniel ask agreement to Andrew Fedoniouk before reuse UI metaphor in NVU.
But similar metaphor based on rulers exist too in Word from MS for multi-column and table manipulation. Daniel have you got also a formal agreement from Bill
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