Subject: Re: WordCount dialog
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 18:24:55 CST
That is my fault. It looked good on my window manager that way. In fact
different setting on even the same X window manager will give differing
amounts of space to the headings so even a pure virtual class is not
enough.
These headings are in all the modeless dialogs. Maybe we should dispense
with the prepended path name in the title of document. This is a better
lowest-common denominator solution.
Martin
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Sam TH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:44:36PM +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> > I was a bit confused at first when it only displayed the last two characters
> > of the current document name in its caption/title. Then I had a look at
> > AP_Dialog_WordCount::ConstructWindowName and realized that function
> > deliberately sets the maximum title length to 26 chars.
> >
> > My question now becomes, how did this number turn up? Is it something that
> > looks good in some X environment? Perhaps a more appropriate approach would
> > be to have a pure virtual function in AP_Dialog_WordCount that gets the
> > maximum number of "title displayable" characters for each platform? In Win32
> > it only uses about 60% of the displayable area, unecessary truncating the
> > document name (well, not really truncating, it chops of the _beginning_ of
> > the document name).
> >
>
> Well, on my system, it doesn't have a title at all, but if I switch window
> managers so that it has a title, then it it takes up almost no room.
>
> As a general principle, hardcoded limits are evil, and should be removed.
> Patches gladly accepted.
>
>
> sam th
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