[openbeos] Re: preferences

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 17:53:00 CEST (+0200)

> one of my biggest gripes in BeOS is in certain preferences panels 
> (such as 
> Menu and Scrollbar) where a change doesn't take place until every 
> single 
> window is closed and then reopened. Hopefully there is a better way: 
> fixing 
> every window on the fly so that you can easily see the effect of your 
> changes 
> and not losing any information.

You don't have to close every window; every newly opened window will 
adopt the new preferences.
Until BeOS doesn't come with a proper layout engine, there is no way to 
do it.
The Scrollbar could immediately change though, since it doesn't change 
its size.

Adios...
   Axel.



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