Topic: Windows XP dialog boxes (1 of 4), Read 28 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 08:24 AM

Windows XP has resizeable dialog boxes. Many applications support them. However, Vedit still has fixed size dialog boxes.

Could it be possible to implement resizeable dialog boxes in Vedit?
Or would that require to have different versions of Vedit for Windows XP and older Windows versions?

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Pauli

 

Topic: Re: Windows XP dialog boxes (2 of 4), Read 27 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:12 AM

At 08:25 AM 3/16/2006, you wrote:
>Windows XP has resizeable dialog boxes. Many applications support them. However, Vedit still has fixed size dialog boxes.
>
>Could it be possible to implement resizeable dialog boxes in Vedit?
>Or would that require to have different versions of Vedit for Windows XP and older Windows versions?

We have not yet examined this possibility. In any case, it only makes sense
to resize some dialog boxes, perhaps only those with a mini-Explorer, such as the File-open dialog box (which we already made quite large).

What dialog boxes were you thinking of?

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: Windows XP dialog boxes (3 of 4), Read 26 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:12 AM

On 3/16/2006 11:12:41 AM, Ted Green wrote:
>
>We have not yet examined this possibility. In any case, it
>only makes sense to resize some dialog boxes,
>perhaps only those with a mini-Explorer, such as the
>File-open dialog box (which we already made quite large).
>
>What dialog boxes were you thinking of?

Any file open dialog box, e.g. when loading a macro or syntax file, or when executing Get_Filename() macro command.

--
Pauli

 

Topic: Re: Windows XP dialog boxes (4 of 4), Read 27 times
Conf: VEDIT Suggestions
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Monday, March 27, 2006 06:15 PM

On 3/27/2006 10:12:24 AM, Pauli Lindgren wrote:
>On 3/16/2006 11:12:41 AM, Ted Green
>wrote:
>>
>>We have not yet examined this possibility. In any case, it
>>only makes sense to resize some dialog boxes,
>>perhaps only those with a mini-Explorer, such as the
>>File-open dialog box (which we already made quite large).
>>
>>What dialog boxes were you thinking of?
>
>Any file open dialog box, e.g. when
>loading a macro or syntax file, or when
>executing Get_Filename() macro command.
>
I would agree with this. I often think of this as the "keyhole" interface. Windows makes you open files through a tiny window, this hasn't changed since the days when 640*480 was the standard display.

In fact I rarely open files through File Open because of the lousy Windows interface (Vedit is better than most), and use an external File Manager (ZTree).