To be clear, Aaron's asking how to get the bold text in his paragraph,
not the "More information..." link. :)
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Finnur Thorarinsson<fin...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> It is only incredibly painful if you mix in the link in with other words in
> the middle of a sentence, like I had to do with the About box. If you,
> instead, have a link below the main text (like the mock shows) it is dead
> simple and easy.
> I don't see why you should avoid using Link in that case.
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 00:14, 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?
>>
>> - a
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>
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