Hi Michael,
>>This is described by Fitts' law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts'_law
:)
>>The collapsing part of this is implemented right now - you can see [...] when you activate
>>a palette, other ones will collapse to try and make space and prevent the scroll bar from appearing.
Surely, I knew about it. But other part of described palette handling after clicking on button lying in the palette "marked as rarely used" is important part as well. It was a crucial thought of my previous reasoning. Now, palette handling can be characterized as self-expanding/other-collapsing. What I meant it was to make a things upside down (for less commonly used tabs/buttons) - i.e. self-collapsing/other-expanding_to_previous_state to restore it.
I really hope the scroll bar never appears to me... hehe... It would imply there is something wrong with UI - too many commands, palletes or something like this...
...see http://www.3designjewel.com/flash/discover/parametric/parametric_court.html
Petr
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