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Re: Programmatic size adjustment of widgets under Windows vs. UNIX (was "Natural size of explicitly-sized widget") [message #55623 is a reply to message #55591]

Wed, 29 August 2007 16:44

Jean-Paul Davis
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Registered: March 1998

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On Aug 29, 4:23 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:

> At the time I started down this path my attitude was
> "to hell with the UNIX people, they're used to things
> looking like crap anyway." I was just trying to get something
> to work on the two flavors of Windows I was running.
> I hope your assumption about Motif is correct, because
> God help you if it isn't. I do have a pretty good idea
> where I am going to put my money, however. (Anybody
> want to help us track down the Macintosh numbers, by
> the way?)

> By the way, I am EXTREMELY impressed with all the hard
> work here. I'm just amazed that someone would stick with

In fact, I was all ready to start the bureaucratic side of the process
required to distribute my application with the look-nice resizing
turned off for UNIX (and a mention in the user's manual that the GUI's
wouldn't look as nice in UNIX due to missing capabilities in IDL),
when I realized there SHOULD be a way to make it work in UNIX too, and
that, even if it sometimes seems random, there must be a logical
explanation for all observed behaviors (even if the behavior is
illogical). Due to my sometimes-unhealthy level of perfectionism, I
soon found myself spending two whole days figuring it out, and now I
can remove the lie about missing capabilities from my user's manual.
I think it will work on other UNIX systems... my main reason for doing
it is that a significant number of the potential users work on Macs.
I will post back if I find it does not behave correctly on Mac.

It would be nice if someone could compile a complete list of
behaviors, or write a detailed "how-to" on making your GUI's look
nice. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), that's not what I get
paid to do.

Jean-Paul Davis

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		Re: Programmatic size adjustment of widgets under Windows vs. UNIX (was "Natural size of explicitly-sized widget") By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 01 September 2007 19:26
		Re: Programmatic size adjustment of widgets under Windows vs. UNIX (was "Natural size of explicitly-sized widget") By: Jean-Paul Davis on Wed, 29 August 2007 16:44
		Re: Programmatic size adjustment of widgets under Windows vs. UNIX (was "Natural size of explicitly-sized widget") By: R.G.Stockwell on Wed, 29 August 2007 15:55
		Re: Programmatic size adjustment of widgets under Windows vs. UNIX (was "Natural size of explicitly-sized widget") By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 August 2007 15:23

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