Comment 44 for bug 149805

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM, sander <email address hidden> wrote:
>>> Ok, you convinced me, but maybe you should combine it with an
>>> extremely short fade effect to make it look more smooth?
>>>
>>
>> This time I say that there is no chance this can happen with current Tk.
>> There just aren't low level tools to do this, at least right now.
>
> You said the same last time!! B-)
>

This time it i for sure.

>> Instead, I was thinking of doing a sinus shaped movement when sliding
>> instead of linear as it is now. Needs testing.
>
> What is "sinus shaped movement"?

Implemented and tested. On by default. Actually, it gets even cooler!
Please experiment yourself using:
namespace eval ::UI {
    variable slide
    #set slide(mode) linear
    set slide(mode) sinus
    set slide(step) 20

    # On slower OS/machines we should decrease this value.
    if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
 set slide(ms) 20
    } else {
 set slide(ms) 40
    }
}
in UI.tcl or just do:
set UI::slide(ms) 1
etc.

>
>> This is the lousy Mac subwindow implementation of Tk. Other platforms
>> are much better at this.
>
> Maybe you can fix or work around this?
>

Cocoa is the way to go. And it's a long way. If you look at the
tcl-mac mailing list archive maybe you can find the guy who said he
was doing this blog.

Another one: menu now added, Cmd-S not good for this. Edit the line
 set m {command mShowControlPanel {::JUI::ToyStatusCmd} {}}
in JUI.tcl to
 set m {command mShowControlPanel {::JUI::ToyStatusCmd} {Z}}
or whatever.