On 2020-10-30 16:31:25 -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:20 PM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020, at 12:05, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > Why do you think that's something your application needs to know? > > > > > > I _hate_ applications that think just because they've been started > > > they now own the entire computer and everything reachable from it. > > > > > > All you need to know is how big your application window is. The user's > > > available screen size is none of your business. > > > > The application decides how big the application window is. The user > > can resize it, but there's no reason for the screen size not to be > > one of the inputs considered for the initial choice. > > Nope. > It is nNOT up to application. > It is either up to the developer
The developer writes the application. The application doesn't decide to do anything it hasn't been programmed to do. So saying "it is not up the the application, it is up to the developer" doesn't make any sense. Oh, and I just realized that "application" is ambiguous. It could mean the program, or it could be what the program is used for. Of course the developer should consider the latter when writing the former. > (if he calls Maximize() ) on the main frame, An application shouldn't do that unless explicitely directed to by the user. > or the OS if the main frame is using defaults. I'm not sure if OS's even have a default window size. In any case, one size doesn't fit all. There are many cases where the initial size should depend on the application: * A terminal emulator would make the window large enough for a typical terminal size (e.g. 80x25 characters) plus chrome. * An image viewer would make it large enough for the image, but not larger than the screen (if the image is larger than the screen (quite probable for photos) it will be scaled down). * A MUA would make it large enough for a list of mailboxes, a list of mails and one mail in some default pane configuration, but again not larger than the screen. * A media player would make it large enough for the playlist and some chrome. etc. -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"
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