variables view auto-lowering (Was: Remarks on 3.3.93)

[Matt Rogers]

On Monday 11 December 2006 10:23, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Monday 11 December 2006 19:09, kitts wrote:
> > On Monday 11 December 2006 21:06 IST, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Because KMDI (the underlying library for that ui mode) is totally
> > > broken. Check out the Simple IDEAl mode, it doesn't have all features
> > > of IDEAl, but is much less broken.
> >
> > True but there is one important reason i use the IDEAL mode. As soon as i
> > start the debugger, the variables view opens up and then collapses itself
> > when i stop debugging. This unfortunately is not the behavior when in the
> > simple mode. It's a handy feature! :-)
>
> And unfortunately, the auto-hide feature was removed on SVN HEAD, because
> with it, if you move variables window to bottom of the window, it will then
> reappear on the left edge, due to bugs in KMDI.
>
> In fact, I'm not not sure which is more important -- auto-hide or keeping
> the position.
>
> Hmm, I wonder why this auto-show and auto-hide does not work in simple
> mode. Are raiseView and lowerView implemented there? Alexander?
>
> - Volodya
>

keeping the position.
--
Matt