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Re: GUI size on different screens [message #51671 is a reply to message #51512]

Wed, 29 November 2006 12:56

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Rick Towler writes:

> This thread awakens a long suppressed annoyance with IDL and its lack of
> a default window/widget re-sizing event handler. Would it not be
> possible to say specify that a tlb be resizable, *not* specify a resize
> event handler, and have IDL automagically scale all of the widgets
> proportionally?
>
> I'm sure a number of people are hitting reply right now to propose cases
> where this behavior wouldn't be desirable. And they'd be right. And
> they could write their own resize event handler. But there are a lot of
> cases where this re-sizing behavior is quite acceptable. In Lory's
> case, a few lines of code could resize the entire gui, instead of having
> to rework much of the gui creation code.

This was one of our ambitious goals for the Catalyst Library
when Dave Burridge and I first wrote it. I'll bet Dave told
me 30 times that he "had the problem solved", only to have
his spirits crushed when I could come up with a counter-example
in less than five minutes. (Of course, we weren't working
with some of Dick Jackson's nifty tools then, either.)

Some days I became convinced that IDL was substituting
random numbers for widget geometry, but this was corrected,
more or less, by adjusting the dosage of my medication.

I'm just saying, it was one frustrating time in my life.

I'd like to see it happen, too. But I am *definitely* not
going to be counting on it. :-(

Cheers,

David

P.S. I even got (I think) this to work for a *single* widget,
a status bar. I was so excited I was going to write an article
about it, but I notice the article is not on my web page. I'm
trying to remember why not. Probably because I *still* had to
use a fudge factor that I couldn't explain away.

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		GUI size on different screens By: lory on Thu, 23 November 2006 10:37
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Mon, 27 November 2006 14:43
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: Harvey Rarback on Wed, 29 November 2006 18:00
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: lory on Tue, 28 November 2006 11:34
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Mon, 27 November 2006 14:07
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: Harvey Rarback on Thu, 30 November 2006 16:07
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 November 2006 18:24
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 November 2006 12:56
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: Rick Towler on Wed, 29 November 2006 09:18
		Re: GUI size on different screens By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 November 2006 11:41

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