On 05/10/2014 08:14 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
On 05/10/2014 05:53 AM, Ali Linx wrote:
Yes, I can resize that - not sure I explained that? - but not all the
application allows you to do so. Some applications/tools by default,
are drawn in a way that none of the edges or borders are cut-off so I
can read exactly everything without resizing and sometimes with
resizing. However, some applications/tools don't actually allow you
to do that or these do but to a certain point where you can't go
further and after all, it is useless and you still miss the bottom part.
Ali:
Hello Aere and thanks for your reply,
The application I tested, is the one I have developed, and I used it
for testing because I understand how it works internally, and because
of developing it, I am aware of the internal things the developer can
specify.
It is written in Java, and uses the Swing GUI. So it differs from
most applications on Linux, which are written in C++, and likely use
QT (or GTK) for the GUI.
Oh okay :)
I am assuming that the things available to the developer in Java/Swing
are similar to what is available to developers using Qt and C++. That
assumption could very well be wrong. I don't actually know.
No idea, I'm not even close to be a developer/programmer :D
Certainly, there is the capability to maximize the window available.
I didn't mention it because we were addressing cases where part of the
window is cut-off. Maximizing would introduce the possibility of it
being cut-off width-wise as well.
Yep!
In your paragraph above, you have a good point.
Normally, when you paint a window, it will display it using the
'preferred' dimensions.
However (and I may fix this in my application - I hadn't thought of
it), the application is (or can be) aware of the screen dimensions
available, and can act accordingly.
Indeed, this is IMHO what should happen in general. I thought that is
the default 'setting' with applications but it appears it is not.
To fix it, if the screen is too small for the window, I could (and
should) at least set the window size to its minimum dimensions, rather
than allowing it to be painted in its 'preferred' dimensions. In the
case of my application, the minimum dimensions will still not be
enough, but it would help. Thank you for pointing out a bug in my
application!
You welcome :D
IMHO, the maximum default size (default/initial size = the size of the
window upon running it) of any window should be 'smaller' than the
resolution of the display. If this is the default settings, then we
would never have this issue no matter how small your screen is.
As for what package you would report the problem, it would be each
individual application that exhibits the problem, which is probably a
lot of packages.
You think so? I'm not too sure about this to be honest ...
By the way, when my web-site goes live (which will be soon), I plan to
post a short e-mail to this list (if it is permissible) giving the URL
of my web-site, and people (if they are interested) can take a look at
what I have been doing since January of 2012. It is a MIDI music
application, which (I think) is amazing in what it can do.
Good luck with that and will be waiting to see :)
Anyway, I hope this information helps.
Actually, I'm glad that you 100% understand what I'm talking about.
However, that didn't 100% fix my issue :D or to be more accurate (as I
don't use Lubuntu on my own machine) fix the issue for my neighbors.
I need to go make a small fix to my application.
Good luck and glad this discussion will make your app even better ;)
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