XForms: Two fdesign wishes

Mike Blackwell (mkb@cs.cmu.edu)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:23:51 -0500

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Mike Blackwell <mkb@cs.cmu.edu> :

Here are two additions to fdesign which I'd like to see:

1) I like that you can now specify free objects. Unfortunately,
the name of the object handler becomes hard wired, which is
often not appropriate (if you want multiple objects to share
a handler, for example). So I'd like a way to specify the
name of the handler (in the attributes "Spec" tab, I suppose).

2) I'd *really* like a way to directly enter or edit any object's
X, Y, width, and height. This is invaluable when you're trying
to get a form to look just right, when 10 pixel increments are
too coarse, or when you need objects to have exactly the same
bounding boxes. I usually wind up editing the .fd file by hand
to get what I want...

Minor points, but they'd make me happy!

Mike Blackwell
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