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The textbox had to have a property for the minimum size of the font. We don’t want our users to see a textbox with a font of 0.25 pixels. That wouldn’t be a good user experience :)

The rest of the stuff has to go pretty much automatically. When the user types, the fontsize automatically adjust. It gets smaller when the text is getting larger than the available space in the textbox and the fontsize gets larger when there’s enough available space.

A while back Tim Heuer wrote a post where he refactored the Silverlight ChildWindow to create a non-modal window and called it FloatableWindow. Now his friend Karl Shifflett helped him to add two new features - a start position and resizing capabilities to the window.

My buddy Karl Shifflett decided to use it (FloatableWindow) in Glimpse as the diagnostic window – thanks Karl!  Karl even added some code to it to basically provide a start position (HorizontalOffset and VerticalOffset).  Another request Karl had was to add resizing capabilities to the window. I’m pleased to say that I added both of these features to the source.