Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Sun, 8 Sep 02 22:47:18 +0100 From: "Chris January" To: "Cygwin@Cygwin.Com" Subject: RE: Setup window size: a suggestion Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:47:18 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: > > > > You're missing something ;-). Resizing the window is in fact easy; > > > > getting the "Back/Next/Finish/Cancel" buttons and the separator to > > > > cooperate is a collossal PITA. Windows property sheets, it is > > > > abundantly clear, were never intended to be resized dynamically or > > > > otherwise once all the pages had been added. > > > > > > > > So, as a wise man once said, "the impossible will take a > little longer". > > > > > > But isn't that exactly what my suggestion will allow to avoid? If the > > > window size is pre-selected (in fact, with a command-line > option, you may > > > even know it before any windows are created), dynamic > resizing is not an > > > issue. The window will still be non-resizeable, but will > have a different > > > (fixed) size depending on the option. This could possibly be > accomplished > > > by having multiple property sheet definitions and choosing > the correct one > > > at run-time (I'm not too up-to-date on windows programming, so please > > > correct me if I'm wrong). > > > > The current size of the property sheet pages follows a > recommendation from > > Microsoft on how a setup wizard should look and feel. As such it should > > look and feel good on most desktops. > > > > As far as I remember the main purpose of resizable pages is to make the > > chooser resizable. > > > > Other than that I don't see a reason to have them. > > Right. But we definitely need to do something to make the > chooser page a bit > less user-hostile. My current thinking, if I can get it to work > of course, is > to have that one page just be bigger, but not to have > user-available resizing. > > > And I haven't seen many > > programs implementing resizable dialogs/pages btw. Borland's Delphi / C++ Builder are great.. *g* Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/