[Lazarus] New about dialog in 0.9.27 (svn trunk)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:47:35 +1100
"Alexander Klenin" <klenin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 19:49, Graeme Geldenhuys
> <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I love the new about dialog and the animated information. :-) The
> > pride and joy of a programmer - creating the about screen. ;-)
> >
> > One not so great feature is when you resize the dialog (Lazarus IDE
> > compiled with GTK2).  The mini logo, Close button and page control
> > tabs flicker like crazy!!
> 
> Under win32, logo and page controls do flicker, but Close button does
> not. Anyway, why is About dialog resizeable at all? The only reason to
> resize it would be
> to increase the amount of visible credits, but the the animated area
> does not grow with the dialog, which looks rather amateurish, if you
> pardon the expression.
> 
> So I suggest disable resizing and thus fix both problems at once ;-)

No, that would be a workaround. The controls should not flicker. It's a
bug somewhere.
BTW, fixed dialogs are against our design guide lines.


Mattias