Annoted Workspace window take 1:

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupaG5TB8Zc
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> So how should I be trying to do this or is it going outside the boundaries
> of what I should expect the canned interface to do out of the box?  If so,
> how do I make the box bigger?
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> lawson
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> Your main question is, how do I make the box bigger?  Or how to do it
> automatically?  to make it bigger, you use the yellow resize handle at
> lower right...
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Lawson English <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupaG5TB8Zc
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>> So how should I be trying to do this or is it going outside the boundaries
>> of what I should expect the canned interface to do out of the box?  If so,
>> how do I make the box bigger?
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> Chris Muller wrote:
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>> Your main question is, how do I make the box bigger?  Or how to do it
>> automatically?  to make it bigger, you use the yellow resize handle at
>> lower right...
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>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Lawson English <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupaG5TB8Zc
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>>> So how should I be trying to do this or is it going outside the
>>> boundaries
>>> of what I should expect the canned interface to do out of the box?  If
>>> so,
>>> how do I make the box bigger?
>>>
>>>
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> I didn't ask that very well. I meant, how do I make the box bigger that I'm
> trying to think outside of (it took me a while to figure out what I was
> trying to say :-/ ).
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> Mixed metaphors and all that.
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> Anyway, I figured out a few of my issues (though not perfectly): I can
> create a workspace window and embed a painting morph within it and sorta not
> paint outside the boundaries of the window. I can add little buttons in the
> tile bar to switch modes between coding and annotating, etc.
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> Various glitches include: being able to set the size of the window so small
> that the border is obscured by the paint area so I have to use halos instead
> of the window border to resize the window larger; not having any feedback
> for switching between coding/annotating mode; etc.
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> Thanks for yor feedback.
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> L
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> You may want to consider dragging out a plain Text rather than a
> workspace window..  It's lighter-weight, but it might work better,
> since I doubt workspace was written with the idea of embedding morphs
> in it..
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> In Maui's text-widget, I chose to allow embedding of any object as a
> "character" that flows like any other in the text..  I believe this is
> possible in standard TextMorphs too..
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