On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:56:30AM +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
So, assuming the user is invoking the application for the first time, how should an application determine how much of the screen it should use? It has to make some choice, and any hard-coded value is almost certainly wrong. So why should an application not use the screen size as one factor?
I have been following this discussion with some interest (except for the grumpy parts ~(:>)) ), and have wondered this same thing. Is there any good guidance on how to answer this question? Or should it be up to the combination of GUI toolkit and OS being used? It seems that if the programmer does nothing, some default size is generated. As a user I have not been too concerned about the size presented upon first using a program. What gets my dander up is what happens *after* I set the size I prefer. Many programs do not store this preference for future runs of the program or even during the same session when a new window is generated of the exact same type. A Windows-based application I use for work constantly annoys me in this regard, especially when I am working at home on my (not as wide as Chris') ultra-wide monitor: I open external beam planning window for patient #1, resize it. Open same for next patient -- must resize once again (...and again, and again, ...). -- Wishing you only the best, boB Stepp -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
