[Made With Macintosh]
Last Updated: 21 Jul 97
 
Experiment with the RoundWindow WDEF

 

This guy, Mattias Ellert, has a RoundWindow WDEF and being the crazy impulsive person I am, I snarfed it down and plugged it into a couple of my Kaleidoscope schemes. In his (quite brief) Read Me file, Mattias had already explained that it wasn't going to work with Kaleidoscope, though not in so many words:
"Zoom boxes and grow icons are not available for round windows. "

The results are less than desired, but still amazed me enough to throw this page together. I've made a series of screenshots that show the RoundWindow WDEF in use as part of a Kaleidoscope scheme. I named the temporary scheme "crashtime" though I didn't crash until I switched to the scheme while already running Netscape and NSCA Telnet! I have not beat on this very hard at all, so I'm sure there's lots of other things that would cause unpleasant crashes which I haven't found yet. I wonder what happens if I turn on the WindowShade extension and try to close one up? If I get brave enough to try it, I'll probably update this page.

In the screenshots, you'll see the Kaleidoscope control panel, a Telnet window, a couple of finder windows and a DragThing windoid, which is not round. I should warn you now, these are shots of a 1024x768 screen, you'll need to scroll around a bit. That also means large files, they're between 75K to 80K so you'll want to read the descriptions and then you'll probably only look at the third shot, but what the heck.

The Screen Shots
  • Screen one, the Kaleidoscope control panel in all its oval glory. To the left is the Telnet window, to the right are two finder windows. I think that's the "corner" of my PPP dialog making the right-most window look a little weird. (75K)

  • Screen two puts the Kaleidoscope control panel into the background and brings into the foreground a finder window. See how you can see the scroll thumb? That was just lucky. It can be grabbed and moved, but once you move the thumb out of view, you can't grab it again. You can move it back into view by using the arrow keys to scroll up and down, but hey, by then you're scrolling already. (74K)

  • Screen three shows the trails of round edges that didn't get properly cleaned up when moving one of the round windows. (80K)
Kaleido
[Made With Macintosh]
Last Updated: 21 Jul 97