On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 15:27 -0800, Ramy Yanetz wrote: > Thanks Turbo and the rest of the development team. So far I like very > much what you guys did. > > The only minor issue I noticed so far is overflow of description text > in the waypoint details (Dell Streak). The text area needs to be > enlarged (or an option to reduce the font size?). > Unless things have moved on in XCS 6.3x this is due the the program not folding over-long lines and has, certainly til the end of last year, been a feature of both XCSoar and LK8000.
The solution I use is to manually limit lines to no more than 32 characters. This isn't, and can't be, a fixed limit because the programs use a proportionally spaced font. This means that the maximum length of a line depends on what its saying: 32 chars works for me but ymmv. The real simple fix would be to use ugly old monospace fonts (e.g Courier) and always wrap the lines at whatever line length fits the window. The more complex approach involves keeping book on the pixels used by each character as its added to the line and wrapping when the next one won't fit. Either way, anything that can't rearrange a complete paragraph if/when a line in it needs to be wrapped gives an ugly looking page of text. An then, if you're using lines, e.g. for runways that look like: 16/34 grass 1100m x 45m .... then you really need either a monospace font some form of fixed tab handling or what should be in columns gets all wavery, messy and harder to read than it should be. The trouble is that it all gets out of proportion if you try to do a nice typesetting job. My vote is for a monospace font and keeping things simple for displays that (hopefully) nobody needs to look at very often! Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
