Inspirational Technology

Early Look at Panther

MacNightOwl has posted a look at Panther. Nothing really new compared to what I've seen over the last few days but it does hint that there's a slight possibility of upgrade pricing.

Expose' is the one killer feature that I want out of this thing. I hate window clutter and this looks like a very good tool to help with that.

Now what I really want though is to be able to resize any window via zooming and then to continue working with it in its zoomed state. You can do this already by zooming in on the screen to make it bigger, I use this all the time to view images and such that are too small, but I want to also be able to zoom out and make things smaller. This should work on a per window basis so that you can size the windows to better fit on the screen. This seems completely possible. In my experiments I've been able to almost get it to work. Unfortunately any NSButton that has an image on it doesn't scale properly so the interface gets all screwed up. Some things like NSTextView scale perfectly, but some forms of NSButton just don't work right for some reason. I know there's a way to do this, the dock minimization effect is one example that shows it can work but so far I haven't been able to quite figure out the right APIs to call.