Sorry that it's taken me so long to jump into this thread... The `racket/gui' library indeed makes no effort to ensure that frames are wide enough to display the frame's title, whether the frame is created by instantiating `frame%' or `dialog%' or by calling `message-box'.
I see that adding that functionality to `message-box' for Windows might make sense, on the grounds that the Win32 MessageBox() function makes a frame big enough to show the message-box title (up to a point). Along similar lines, it would be good to modernize `message-box' for Mac OS X and Gtk, which includes moving the title to the window content instead of the title bar on those platforms. I'll add those changes to my to-do list. A related but different issue is whether `message%' instances are made wide enough. They should be, and `auto-resize' mode even makes them resize as needed when the message text is changed. But I don't think that was the original question. As for the big icon within the `message-box' dialog, that a common convention, although you have to specify something like MB_ICONEXCLAMATION for MessageBox() to enable it on Windows. The Racket `message-box' dialog defaults to an application-specific icon, which I guess is a Mac OS X convention, but you can override it with a 'caution or 'stop style. There's no icon in the title bar for `message-box' because it's a dialog, and Windows dialogs normally do not have an title-bar icon. At Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:53:13 -0400, Harry Spier wrote: > Its Windows Vista. > > Also I don't know if this is also another bug. When the message-box > displays, the Racket logo displays not in the title bar but in the > message area beside the text and it is about double the size as it > appears in a top-level window frame title bar. > > (I haven't yet tried Patrick suggested solution of setting > auto-resize to #t as I did a work around of increasing the message > size to be longer than the title). > Thanks, > Harry > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > > > Strange. Works okay on my Mac. What platform? > > > > > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Harry Spier wrote: > > > >> That displays OK > >> > >> but: > >> #lang racket/gui > >> (message-box "goodbye Fred" "hello world") > >> > >> displays the message box title as "goodby..." because the message box > >> width is only wide enough to hold the message and the Racket logo > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Harry > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Matthias Felleisen > >> <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>> Do you mean something like this: > >>> > >>>> #lang racket/gui > >>>> > >>>> (message-box "good bye" "hello world") > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Harry Spier wrote: > >>> > >>>> I've created a simple message-box. It expands in width to display the > >>>> message, but if the title is longer than the message, then the title > >>>> is cut-off. Is there any way to have the message-box expand enough to > >>>> display the title in that case. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Harry Spier > >>>> ____________________ > >>>> Racket Users list: > >>>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >>> > > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
