On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 09:03, Bruce Robert Pocock wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 10:38, Ben FrantzDale wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 07:04, Dave Bordoley wrote: > > > some ideas that we threw around include: > > > 1.automatic layout ala windows(apparently is hard to do with icon > > > stretching) > > The most essential "magic" about the Windows Explorer auto-layout is > that it's "text-like;" i.e. it moves the icon and reflows exactly as a > paragraph of text would under the same circumstances... > > > Second, place the icons in standard left--right, top--bottom order. > > Place each icon in the next available grid cell. If an icon is larger > > than the grid cell it's going in, let it spill onto adjoining cells. > > > > The only trick I see is figuring out the grid pitch. Too small and many > > icons would spill over into two, four, or more cells; too large and > > small icons would be lost. > > It would seem to me that the grid pitch should be the default icon size > at the current window zoom setting, no? I suppose... I was just being more general. In the random case that you had resized most icons by 1.1x, using the default size would make for a very sparse layout. Either way, it seems that there are two steps for figuring out how to do windows-like placement with variable-sized icons: (1) Define "optimum" layout. (2) Figure out an algorithm to optimize layout. I suspect (1) is harder than (2). :-) --Ben
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