[Kst] kdeextragear-2/kst/kst

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 19:24, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> In principle, one could shrink the window to zero (perhaps make it small,
> then turn on the toolbar/statusbar).  While it is hard to imagine when this
> could be useful, it is similarly hard to argue that we should prevent it,
> or that kst should die if it happens....
>
> Baring recent changes, kst has a minimum size for the window.  With the
> statusbar and toolbar off, a usable plot gets drawn.  With them on, the
> draw space is not zero, but is too small to draw a plot.  It is possible (I
> haven't verified this) that with an appropriately huge menu font, the
> minimum size would allow the pixmap size to shrink to zero.
>
> I think that the correct behavior should be:
> -no preset minimum size.
> -kst should happily sit with a zero sized window until it gets made larger
> again.
>
> But I don't feel strongly enough to suggest that anyone do anything about
> it....

  I'd still like to know how to see this.  That's why the assert() is there.  
I haven't found a way to trigger it yet, though I'm imagining that 
hypothetically one could have >n plots in a column in a window n pixels high.  
That would make at least one plot be 0 pixels high.  I think we should guard 
against that instead.  It's an absurd use case, and having a possibility of a 
null buffer/pixmap seems worse (ugly) to me.  The whole (relevant) idea 
behind the view objects design in the first place was that this case 
could/should not happen.

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