Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Then again, how many programs have you seen where you can't even 
>> resize a window?
> 
> Or worse, people who don't bother to look at how big text is before they 
> lay out their window, so cut off half the text if you're not using the 
> same font size as the authors.
> 
> But yes, this is bascially the problem that for many years there were no 
> Windows graphics APIs that took anchors and stretch-factors and such and 
> resized things automatically to fit the window. I've never seen this on 
> (for example) a Tcl interface, where it's easier to do it right than wrong.

I've just seen a GTK dialog where half the dialog text doesn't fit 
unless you manually enlarge the window (i.e., it opens too small 
initially). I have no idea how they could get that wrong, but hey...

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