On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Aaron Boodman<a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Ben Goodger (Google)<b...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>> I actually don't like having a mix of HTML/native UIs in the product.
>> When we switched to the NTP from the old Destinations page we made the
>> decision to have the content of tabs feel webby and the content of
>> dialogs feel dialoggy.
>>
>> As a result the NTP now feels pleasantly webby, but many of the HTML
>> dialogs don't feel dialoggy (focus issues, key accelerators, etc).
>
> This is why I decided to go with native for the install dialog.
>
> I feel like doing this the way that the about dialog is done would be
> incredibly painful and buggy because of wrapping issues. Also, at
> least on my machine (I am one of those weirdos that uses vista with
> the classic theme), the about dialog does not look right. The
> alignment of the links is slightly off.
>
> I would prefer to use the platform APIs that already know how to do
> this correctly. I'm thinking of adding something like
> set_bold_delimiter(const std::string&) on Label. You could use it like
> this:
>
> myLabel->set_bold_delimiter("*");
> myLabel->set_text("hello *world*");
>
> Is this totally lame?
Then you have to worry about escape characters, which ends up being a
bit finicky. I would rather see some way to add specify an attribute
over a range of the text. Perhaps though we end up with what you are
suggesting in our resources files. Hm.
-Scott
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