On 2010-08-03 19:40, John Coyle wrote:
Any other IT guys found a resizer that is truly competent at this? I use one which usually does a reasonable job, but it sometimes gets bamboozled too.
I'm not sure what a "resizer" is, and I don't think I've ever encountered one, but the answer was created years ago. It's called a GridBagLayout. Unfortunately, it has to be done in the source code for the program, so a user can't "apply it to" a program after the fact.
It and lets the programmer set up the UI to resize intelligently as the window (or screen) size changes. Java has GridBagLayout in its UI bag of tricks, but I haven't encountered one in the Microsoft C/C++ UI libraries for Windows (I haven't done UI programming in years, though).
This is one of the most annoying things I encounter in programs. It's like they're building software for a windowing user interface and it just never even occurs to them that fonts change, screens change, eyesight changes, some users are color blind or need huge text, ... A lot of web developers have the same sort of myopia.
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