[Cuis-dev] initial size of SystemWindow subclass

[Jon Hylands]

In general, when I make an app like that, it holds onto a SystemWindow in
an instance variable - there's no reason to subclass from that class unless
you're changing how the parts of a window that it provides work.

- Jon


On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 at 20:57, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> I'm working on a small demo app ... a todo app. Initially the main class
> was a subclass of LayoutMorph. I changed it to be a subclass of
> SystemWindow so I would get a title, a close button, and the ability to
> resize it for free.
>
> Is there any reason to avoid creating subclasses of SystemWindow for
> things that are not development tools? I suppose not.
>
> When I first open it, it isn't sized correctly to hold all the contents I
> add. See the first screenshot. When I click on an edge of the window, it
> automatically resizes to look like the second screenshot. Is there a
> message I could send to my subclass that would cause it to size correctly
> immediately? I did a lot of searching, but couldn't find anything to do
> that.
>
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