[Lazarus] Lazarus and Windows 7

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Sat Aug 15 20:46:41 CEST 2009


Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> Paul Ishenin wrote:
>>>   
>> Indeed. We are mostly testing with english version. There captions
>> fits fine into designed width.
> 
> And the same issue appears for Afrikaans language as well. I've said it
> before and I'll say it again. All modern GUI toolkits support layout
> managers. These layout managers query each component and asks for the
> preferred size and minimum size. Minimum size from all components will
> dictate the minimum size of the dialog or form, so no clipping ever occurs.

I don't think that a completetly dynamic layouted dialog is possible.
IMO buttons should have a reasonable width for all languages, if a
buttons needs a deeper explanation, use a tooltip.




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