Hi please consider moving to sizers sooner or later, because even dialog units will fail among systems where certain controls have a different layout proportions, eg notebook tabs under OSX. Using sizers will also allow us in the future to embed the default layouting guidelines of a platform.
Thanks, Stefan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andreas Pflug > Sent: Montag, 29. September 2003 09:28 > To: Mark A. Taff > Cc: pgadmin-hackers > Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] xrc Fonts / resizing > > This is moved from pgadmin-support to hackers. > > Mark A. Taff wrote: > > >Andreas, are you talking about something like wxMatrixSizer > as described at: > > > >http://wxworkshop.sourceforge.net/matrixx/default.html > > > No. In fact, this is what I want to avoid technically and by > it's bad look. The last example is just worse case for me. > > > > >I can appreciate that you want this fixed The Right Way(tm). > I am the > >same way when it comes to stuff I do. And I can certainly > appreciate > >the beauty of having wxWindows automatically resize and re-layout > >dialogs based on font properties. However, I am in the > position where > >I _have_ to change all the .xrc files to make pgadmin3 > usable on my machine. > > > >Do you have another solution to making the dialogs usable on > my machine > >other than rewriting the .xrc files? I've been at this for > a month of > >my spare time (granted, my spare time is rather limited), > and I haven't > >come across any other workable solutions. > > > I've been investigating a little, and what's coming is this: > > The dialogs *need* some redesign, because currently they are > designed in pixels, while they should be designed in dialog > units. Originally, I was quite sure we already did, but > unfortunately we failed. > > Redesigning means recalculating all sizes and positions, and > adding a 'd'. > All widths have to be multiplied by 4/6, and all heights by > 8/13, thus 200x20 would become 133,12d We could write a > little program to recalculate all dialogs, unfortunately the > vertical current spacing of 25 (sometimes 20) would lead to > uneven spacing for rounding reasons, so to get it really nice > all vertical positions need manual correction. > > New design guides will have the following values: > First control at (5, 5), vertical spacing 15 for normal > controls, 12 if checkboxes, statics need 2 extra vertical dlg units. > Standard text control size is 133, 12 > Standard button size (ok, cancel) is 46,12 > > I'll patch wx to obey the desktop setting for fonts, and the > dialogs will redesign according to the font automatically then. > > Regards, > Andreas > > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
