On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 12:42:36 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 09:49:47 UTC, number wrote:
On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 00:25:21 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
I'm asking because ... the messagebox sized itself to the
shorter text in the content area. They said it's an OS
limitation (meaning gtk standard dialogs).
Because the Dialog class inherits from Window, you can size it
with setSizeRequest(). On Windows, at least. I'm not sure about
Linux. I'm about to go out for a few hours, so perhaps you
could test this.
Yes, this work on Linux, too.
It also seems dialogs are not user-resizable by default, which
seems strange to me. So I thought to roll my own dialog, but
didn't get to it yet.
That's another topic I have on my list for the dialog series.
Sorry, I was unclear. By rolling my own I meant to not use a
predefined library function MessageRequester() that exists in
that language, but instead using gtk dialog directly which would
be more customizable. Anyway that would only be for learning
purposes, nothing I desperately need.
I also wonder why I often encounter gtk apps/windows that are
unresizable, but still have the resize-icon cursor when
hovering the bottom-right window edge, which when used moves
the window instead.
It's because there are two flags controlling resize-ability,
both found in generated\gtkd\gdk\c\types.d:
- a window decorations flag (GdkWMDecoration), and
- another that controls whether or not the window is allowed to
resize (GdkWMFunction).
If the programmer turns off the resize flag, but not the
decorator flag, well... there's your answer.
Hope that helps, number.
Ok, I understand. But then it seems still strange that the window
can be moved by dragging the edge if it's only a decoration that
is active.
Thanks for your explanations.
