Proposal: Messages Window Update

[Matthew]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:59, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:

> We discussed this some; the general thinking is that losing the niceties of NSTextField is not worth it for styleability, *but* that it might well be possible to fake it by having the text field be in a known location and notify the message view of size changes, allowing the message view to stick an element under it. While a bit of a hack, I think either that or a *very* minimal "text field with a shadow" are the way to go. A chrome-heavy look like I have in the mockup obviously isn't suitable to all styles.

Ah, I somehow missed that in reading IRC scrollback.

These sound like huge limitations for style integration. Hopefully we
could work around those; I'd rather avoid a custom interface inside
the message view that can't really integrate with the message style.



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Matthew