poor live resizing?

Scott_Bernard

Scott_Bernard

El flaco de la loca mac
This would be useful system-wide.!!!

from: http://daringfireball.net/2003/05/more_itunes_minutiae

More iTunes Minutiae


Window Resizing


Yesterday I pointed out that on faster Macs, when you resize windows, iTunes uses live resizing, but on slower Macs, it uses old-fashioned outline resizing. I guessed that the determining factor between “fast” and “slow” was the presence of Quartz Extreme. Email from readers indicates this is wrong; instead, the cut-off seems to be your processor. If you have a G4, iTunes uses live resizing; if you have a G3, it uses outline resizing.


Russ Harlan and E.J. Campbell both emailed an interesting tip: even on a G4, you can suppress live resizing in iTunes by holding down the Command key. This would be quite useful system-wide.
 
Anyone know if the same thing happens for Mail, iPhoto, iMovie, address book, iCal...? They could all use the same thing - Safaris and IE too.

I may be fantasizing here, but it looks like Apple listened to us here on macosx (sort of by going with determinations based on processor)-

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21827

This was one of many threads on the whole window resizing issue when Quartz Extreme came out. Lot's of people brought up the line resizing option idea. Hey, it worked well enough when the Mac first came out - why not keep it around?

I think this is great for G3 owners and their computers that can easily handle everyday/popular computing tasks that now includes something as simple as resizing a window without the annoying delay. Still, even though I have a G4 DP 1 GHz, I would still like the ability to use the outline feature in all apps - it is STILL a little clunky and is the only thing that makes me feel like my computer isn't up to date enough - and no Apple, I will not buy a G5 just for better window resizing performance! :)
 
Hmm - what is going on here? I recently installed 10.2 on my wife's iMac G3 500 MHz - I have to try this out and will let you all know. As expected, the tip in Scott Benards link really does work:

"Russ Harlan and E.J. Campbell both emailed an interesting tip: even on a G4, you can suppress live resizing in iTunes by holding down the Command key. This would be quite useful system-wide."

Still, using a combo keystroke + mouse move is not my cup of tea. I still want outline resizing as a system pref for any app that would support it.
 
On slower computers the option-draging-thing instead activates live rezising. it would be neat if right mousebutton worked as a outline rezier while left was live. and that it was system-wide. i surely miss it in iPhoto.
 
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