Garth, FYI: Setup currently uses a set of static resource files for its dialogs. The setup developers have adopted a model where all the dialogs have the same size, and are drawn in the same window (IIRC, I may be mistaken).
You seem to have some experience with this kind of programming. Why not check out the setup sources from cvs (see http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html for instructions) and try to make a patch? If this works, I'm sure it would be widely appreciated by the community... :-D Igor On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Garth Dahlstrom wrote: > [was Re: RFE - Cygwin setup.exe] > > My appolgies, seems folks have started thread on this already... > > I see 2 ways to overcome the issue of the resizable installer/ > package selection dialog size: > > Option 1) add a button to the bottom of the package selection screen > that says 'Zoom' and make it open only the packages selection > related stuff in a new modal window that is bigger/resizable. > > Option 2) rework the whole setup program to be resizable, this > can be done using a lot of panels that are aligned something like > this (I've done this in Delphi before): > +-Form1 --------------------+ > |+-P1-alTop----------------+| > ||+P3-alClient-++P2-alRight|| > ||| "Choose..."|| [Icon] ||| > ||+------------++---------+|| > |+-------------------------+| > |+-P6-alClient-------------+| > || || > || () Install from Internet|| > || () DL from Internet || > || () Install from Localdir|| > || || > |+-------------------------+| > |+-P4-alBottom-------------+| > || +P5-alRight|| > || |[buttons]||| > || +---------+|| > |+-------------------------+| > +---------------------------+ > Px is TPanel type, where x is the creation order using a gui. > alxxxx is the Align property of the Tpanel object. > > If I had to choose, I would do option 1 cause it is really > easy, and I'm lazy. option 2 would be quite a bit more rework > to the way things are I should think. > > -Garth > > Northern.CA ===-- > http://www.northern.ca > Canada's Search Engine > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:57:16 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Garth, > > > > You may start by searching the cygwin and cygwin-apps mailing lists > > archives for "resizable setup"... > > Igor > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
