[Psi-devel] Single line edit

[Mircea Bardac (IceRAM)]

On Saturday - 29 January 2005 11:08, Bart Peiren wrote:
> It looks great but would it be possible not to resize the window?
> Instead, the chat line could take up more space from the history box
> until they're 50/50 or so.

Eating up space from the Chatview would make the top lines disappear (you'll 
always want the last line to be visible, won't you?). The first lines you 
wrote in the edit box would also move up.

A user does not expect text to be disappearing from the screen when he enters 
something. I also haven't seen any (modern) editor where you write on a line 
and the text already written moves up. The expected direction is down, or the 
user would be confused by the visual changes that occur in the window.

Once you use it, you'll never want to change it. The iChat devs knew something 
when they introduced this feature.

Mircea
/IceRAM

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