1. Re: Window Scaling
- Posted by irvm at ellijay.com
Jun 26, 2003
On Thursday 26 June 2003 01:30 am, Ray Tomes wrote:
>
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > Unfortunately, scaling is not the only issue when it comes to resizing
> > windows. For example, I have some apps that when their windows are
> > exapanded, I don't want the fonts to increase, instead I want more
> > screen space to show things. I might have a listview that shows say 10
> > records, and when I expand the window I want it show as many as can now
> > fit on the screen - with no change in font size.
>
> Derek, I agree with the above. However the possibility of having scaling
> as an OPTION is what I really want (if I didn't make that clear), or at
> least a reasonably easy way to achieve it.
Both of these problems are handled automatically in either GTK or QT:
The first: windows are user-resizable, with controls that remain in their
relative positions, but expand and contract to fit the current window size.
The second: by menu selection of font size.
Several apps also have hotkeys to increase/decrease font size.
Combine those features with hotkey selection of various screen resoliutions,
and the whole setup is a lot more user-friendly for those of us with antique
eyeballs.
And another nice touch: controls (in GTK at least) can, if the programmer
allows, automatically expand as needed to accomodate various lengths of text.
That's helpful for things like labels which in english might be short, but
another language, german for example, might be much longer.
All of these are useful and helpful, it's too bad that Windows doesn't have
these capabilities built in.
Regards,
Irv
