[Lazarus] GTK2 changed to single-handle-per-form design

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 15:43:16 CET 2009


2009/12/16 waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net>:
> well, this also would depend on the method of designing the forms, right?
> consider... one creates a form and places buttons here and there... they
> expect that these buttons will appear in the same place with the same size
> regardless of OS, widgetset and font... many folk and companies spend a huge

How can you expect the button to be the same size if you can't read
the text when you choose a translation that takes up more space?

> amount of time and $$$ on their interfaces and when the underlying code
> moves things about "because it can" then a lot of design stuff becomes
> wasted time and $$$ :?

The same amount of wasted time and € when someone can't use your app
because larger text gets clipped and they can't see smaller text
because their eyes are bad.  Anyway, in the case that you want to use
fixed positions, you can use the gtkfixed container.

Henry




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