13 Critical Drawer issues in under 30 minutes

On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

> > > Does that mean that one cannot use EditFields on Drawers?
> >
> > I was under the impression we couldn't use drawers period, but that's  
> > just me and my cynicism...
>
> Also demonstrably false, since I've got several apps that use them  
> quite nicely, and a number of others do too.



1)  Not being able to tab between fields
2)  The skimpy drawn focus ring on editfields
3)  The increasingly fattening focus ring on listboxes
4)  The focus ring being left over when changing focus
5)  The insertion point being left over
6)  The fact that controls don't live resize
7)  The fact that to set a drawer's height to fit on the entire right
    side of a window minus the grow box you have to know the vertical
    padding of drawers
8)  When you reset the height it does so from the top of the window
    instead of the bottom so you need to reset the top to 0
9)  The fact that controls on window drawers are attached to will draw  
w/
    a white background (editfields in particular, possibly other  
controls
    as well) when the drawers are opening
10) The fact that you can still type in drawers if they're hidden the  
fact
    that you can't hide a window with drawers attached to it
11) The fact that if you hide a drawer move the window and reshow the
    drawer it's now at a very small size
12) The fact that it's pretty easy to get a drawer to completely to  
detach
    from window and cause drawing errors both it and the main window
13) The fact that if you resize the window (and thus the drawer) to be
    taller than it originally was, hide the drawer, make it even taller,
    show the drawer, and then try to shrink the window to it's original
    size, it will refuse because it "hits" something (like a minimum
    size requirement)


I discovered every one of these issues in under 30 minutes. I am not  
willing to work around all that. Thus my statement that drawers (for  
me) are unusable.



Seth Willits
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