Re: About box

2004-03-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] Harold, In many applications, the "Exit?" box is modal and AOT, which is fine, because it's not expected to stay on the screen for a long time. Thus, it doesn't need a taskbar entry, IMO. That is an alternative. The situation is diff

Re: About box

2004-03-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Part of me wonders if our About box and possibly our Exit box should get > taskbar entries... without them they are easy to lose behind other > windows and then they are difficult to retrieve. What do you think? Good idea. In other apps I often have to s

Re: About box

2004-03-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
all means, please just commit code that does blue links in the > >> dialog box. I was aiming to do that and didn't see a way to do it the > >> first time through. > > > > > > Done, but for some reason the CVS commit list has put me back in the > > &quo

Re: About box

2004-03-27 Thread Ben Jackson
, 2004 4:40 PM Subject: Re: About box > Earle, > > Earle F. Philhower III wrote: > > > Howdy Harold, > > > > At 01:49 PM 3/26/2004 -0500, Harold wrote: > > > >> Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: > >> > >>> ...I can submit some sim

Re: About box

2004-03-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
ck in the "requires moderator approval" class of user (the last change I did, the commit email came back just fine w/o moderator intervention AFAICT)... Part of me wonders if our About box and possibly our Exit box should get taskbar entries... without them they are easy to lose behind ot

Re: About box

2004-03-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Earle, Earle F. Philhower III wrote: Howdy Harold, At 01:49 PM 3/26/2004 -0500, Harold wrote: Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: ...I can submit some simple code that does the overridden windowproc (makes the pointer a little hand when you've over the icon, too!), but don't want to push the issue

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Harold, At 01:49 PM 3/26/2004 -0500, Harold wrote: Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: ...I can submit some simple code that does the overridden windowproc (makes the pointer a little hand when you've over the icon, too!), but don't want to push the issue since it's more of a style than substan

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack Tanner wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: [snip] The about box's window title should be "About Cygwin/X". Done The tray menu's entry for the about box should be between "hide/show root window" and "exit"; it should not be the bottom-most entry. The

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 26 11:12, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Yes, it seems inconsistent to me. Cygwin/X is different than a port of package foo to Cygwin: Cygwin/X is an integral piece of Cygwin and runs *only* on Cygwin; it is much more important than a port. I've moved the link to the

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 26 11:12, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Yes, it seems inconsistent to me. > > Cygwin/X is different than a port of package foo to Cygwin: Cygwin/X is > an integral piece of Cygwin and runs *only* on Cygwin; it is much more > important than a port. I've moved the link to the Cygwin/X page up

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Lev Bishop
If it's nitpicky stylistic issues you're after The X icon at the top left of both the About... dialog and the Cygwin/X Exit? dialog is different to the X icon at the top left of other programmes' windows, such as xterm. The one on the about and exit dialogs is a little uglier than the other. I

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
John, John Morrison wrote: From: Harold L Hunt II By all means, please just commit code that does blue links in the dialog box. I was aiming to do that and didn't see a way to do it the first time through. Hi Harold, Try these :)

RE: About box

2004-03-26 Thread John Morrison
> From: Harold L Hunt II > > By all means, please just commit code that does blue links in the dialog > box. I was aiming to do that and didn't see a way to do it the first > time through. Hi Harold, Try these :)

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: Howdy Harold, Subject: Re: About box .. URLs: not possible in a dialog, as far as I can tell since this was how I wanted to do it too. Buttons were the only way I could do it. I have the feeling this is going to turn into the same kind of style argument as

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Earle F. Philhower, III
Howdy Harold, > Subject: Re: About box .. > URLs: not possible in a dialog, as far as I can tell since this was how > I wanted to do it too. Buttons were the only way I could do it. I have the feeling this is going to turn into the same kind of style argument as the ICON resource.

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Rob Foehl wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Jack Tanner wrote: [snip] I agree with all of these points, some moreso than others.. URLs definitely shouldn't be represented as buttons, as it's inconsistent with just about every other user interface out there (across multiple platforms).. The about/exit

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack Tanner wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the website, our FAQ on the website, and our ChangeLog

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Jack Tanner wrote: > Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from > > the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to > > our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Jack Tanner
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the website, our FAQ on the website, and our ChangeLog that is installed lo

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
About box that can be opened from the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the website, our FAQ on the website, and our ChangeLog that is installed locally with the XFree86-xserv package. I would like to modify

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:04:27AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:24:41AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >>> >>>>Okay, I

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:24:41AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >> >>>Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from >>>the tray ico

Re: About box

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the we

Re: About box

2004-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from >the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to >our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the website, ou

About box

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the website, our FAQ on the website, and our ChangeLog that is installed locally with the XFree86-