Le mardi 23 juin 2009 à 11:40:16, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Rainer Bauer<usenet@munnin.com> wrote:
> > [... downloads and peeks at ~\pgadmin3-1.8.4\pgadmin\ui\*.xrc ...]
> > What I find a little bit "strange" is that the dialog elements are
> > not positioned using sizer elements, but instead every single control
> > is specified with an absolute coordinate. But maybe this has
> > historical reasons?
>
> It did - but if you look at the 1.10 source, you should see sizers
> used in pretty much every dialogue now. It took Guillaume and I
> (mainly Guillaume) a *significant* amount of time to work out all the
> platform-specific kinks.
>
Much more time than I initialy thought. Even after the new UI has been
commited (lots of strange quirks to fix).
> > DP> If you had, you'd never suggest trying to offer multiple layouts :-)
> >
> > This would only affect a couple of dialogs. And loading a different
> > resource depending on the screen resolution should be trivial.
>
> Oh, yeah - that's certainly true.
>
> > DP> Technically, yes, it would be a solution, but I doubt anyone will
> > have DP> the patience to implement it.
> >
> > There is one thing that I found while looking at the resources: The OP
> > said the table creation dialog did not fit on his 1024x600 screen. But
> > on my XP SP3 machine this dialog is only 556 pixel high.
>
> In my experience GTK widgets tend to be larger than Windows or Mac
That's also my experience. (And that's why I initialy worked on the sizer
stuff)
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