On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Rainer Bauer<use...@munnin.com> wrote:
> [... downloads and peeks at ~\pgadmin3-1.8.4\pgadmin\ui\*.xrc ...] > What I find a little bit "strange" is that the dialog elements are > not positioned using sizer elements, but instead every single control > is specified with an absolute coordinate. But maybe this has > historical reasons? It did - but if you look at the 1.10 source, you should see sizers used in pretty much every dialogue now. It took Guillaume and I (mainly Guillaume) a *significant* amount of time to work out all the platform-specific kinks. > DP> If you had, you'd never suggest trying to offer multiple layouts :-) > > This would only affect a couple of dialogs. And loading a different > resource depending on the screen resolution should be trivial. Oh, yeah - that's certainly true. > DP> Technically, yes, it would be a solution, but I doubt anyone will have > DP> the patience to implement it. > > There is one thing that I found while looking at the resources: The OP > said the table creation dialog did not fit on his 1024x600 screen. But > on my XP SP3 machine this dialog is only 556 pixel high. In my experience GTK widgets tend to be larger than Windows or Mac -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
