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Re: GUI size on different screens [message #51674 is a reply to message #51512]

Wed, 29 November 2006 09:18

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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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.

-Rick

lory wrote:
> Hi,
> I developed a software in IDL with a large number of GUIs. The screen
> resolution of my PC is 1600x1200 and the GUIs are correctly sized for
> this kind of screen. I did not use explicit sizing of the widgets,
> since I need to use both linux and windows systems. Now, I installed my
> software on a laptop with a 1024x768 pixels screen and ... the software
> is totally useless since the GUIs are too large and go off the screen !
> Is there any simple solution to this problem? There is any way to
> resize characters, buttons and so on accordingly with the screen size?
> Please, I don't want to rewrite all the code to fit the 1024x768 pixels
> ! It's a lot of code !
>
> thanks
>
> lory
>

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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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