Re: GSTitleView stuff

[Serg Stoyan]

Hello Chad,

> I'm still working on the DirectFB backend, w/o any window decoration
> code.  I really like the idea of relying on NSWindow to handle the window
> decorations and the related event handling (for obvious reasons, i'm lazy
> :-).  I guess the plan is to use GSTitleView.  However, there doesn't
> seem to be anything for the other part of the window decorations, the
> resize bar.  I'd like to create a GSResizeBarView (or a similar name) for
> this.

Great!

> I've also noticed some things are missing from GSTitleView:
> 
> *Does not handle changing the close box to indicate "docEdited"

I've almost finished that. To make it work some changes to NSWindow needed.

> *It would be awesome to be able to stick file icons in the title bar,
> with some DnD for them as well.  I can't remember if OS 4.1 had this or
> not, I remember seeing a screenshot of it, but that may have been a beta
> version of OS 4.0, not sure.

I didn't quite undertand how it should look like. What is the main purpose
of sticking file icons to the title bar?

> Also, NSWindow needs work so that it actually can use the GS window 
> decorations.

Sure. But this is not the simple task.

> >From what I understand, some object (NSWindow?) will query the backend
> >to see 
> who is supposed to be handling window decorations.  Such an addition
> would mean that all backends would need this extra method, or maybe just
> put it in GSDisplayServer with a default return value indicating that the
> backend does window decorations.

Maybe.

-- 
Serg Stoyan