Hi, On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:59 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > > On 2020-10-31 10:02:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:55 AM flaskee via Python-list > > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > I have done all of this resizing and layout stuff before. > > > > > > I just ignored the grouchy user with the hate over me wanting screensize. > > > (every list has one of those types, eh? :-) > > > > > > Screensize, in part, determines the aspect ratio calcs to dynamically > > > resize and place the components on the screen. > > > > > > > So what would you do if it turns out that my screen is 5440 x 2104? > > That's what mine is right now. > > That depends on the application. > > If for example the application is in image viewer and the image to be > viewed is 4576x3432 pixels large, that wouldn't fit on the screen. > Assuming 200 pixels of vertical chrome (title bar, window borders, menu > bar and/or buttons), the image would have to be resized to (at most) > 2539x1904 pixels. So the window would be sized to accommodate that. > > (If you use a multi-screen setup, the calculation should be based on > the current screen, of course, not on the combined size of all screens) > > > > I add my voice to those who detest applications that think they know > > best and decide that they own the entire screen. > > 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?
It is not up to application. It is up to the underlying layout system to decide. Thank you. > > hp > > -- > _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. > |_|_) | | > | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing > __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!" > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
