Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] Show the preview window above the current entry

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:50:54 -0800

On Jan 15, 2017, at 9:48 AM, Shlomo Goltz <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I'd also like larger previews, as I can't tell the diff between various word documents, for instance. Excited to see that it will be changed. Also, I just noticed that this post is form 2014. And Witch 4 is still in beta?

That was a post from 2014, talking about their not being a timeframe for Witch 4, which means we hadn't even started writing it yet. Previews, though, turned out to be a much more complicated matter to tackle, and we really can't do much about them without trashing the Witch layout engine and starting from scratch. Because we didn't do that with Witch 4 (it's an evolutionary, not revolutionary, set of new features), previews have pretty much the same constraints as before: They can't be resized and they can't be moved. 

Sorry;
-rob.

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From: Shlomo Goltz <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:48:24 -0800 (PST)

I'd also like larger previews, as I can't tell the diff between various 
word documents, for instance. Excited to see that it will be changed. Also, 
I just noticed that this post is form 2014. And Witch 4 is still in beta?

On Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 7:32:08 PM UTC-5, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Yaoyang Liu <[email-masked] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > At the moment, the preview window is displayed below a window entry, 
> which will interfere the entries below. Why not show the preview window 
> above instead? 
>
> In Witch 4 (no timeframe for that as of yet), the preview window will not 
> be stuck in its present position. Its present location is a side-effect of 
> its being a late addition to the program -- we couldn't easily put it 
> elsewhere without a major code rewrite, hence its bad fixed position. 
>
> regards; 
> -rob.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:32:08 -0800

On Feb 8, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Yaoyang Liu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> At the moment, the preview window is displayed below a window entry, which will interfere the entries below. Why not show the preview window above instead?

In Witch 4 (no timeframe for that as of yet), the preview window will not be stuck in its present position. Its present location is a side-effect of its being a late addition to the program -- we couldn't easily put it elsewhere without a major code rewrite, hence its bad fixed position.

regards;
-rob.

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From: Yaoyang Liu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:16:46 -0800 (PST)

At the moment, the preview window is displayed below a window entry, which 
will interfere the entries below. Why not show the preview window above 
instead?