> I *hate* dialogs with scrollbars. They are *bad* UI design. I disagree. I hate it when a property dialog like idea "IDE Options" occupies all the screen real estate and can't be resized to show other windows at the same time.
> I say tweak the UI to make the dialog fit the screen or re-organise the > dialog into separate tabs or something so that less vertical space is > needed. What tweak? More scrollpanes or more entries in the list at the left? Then each panel will have far fewer fields. Then the 99.9% of users that have screens with more than 800x600 will have to use lots of entries and each one will have half the screen space wasted! There's no way - without a LOT of work (multiple dialog designs for the each screen size) - of having the UI fit all screen sizes. Either you design to a small screen and there's a lot of wasted space on bigger screens or the inverse. It's possible to have frames/dialogs with everything inside a scrollpane and with a little care in the desing/programming the scrollbars dont appear when the frmae/dialog is shown (if theres enough screen real estate:). My apps are designed for 800x640 and/or 1024x768, but they are still usable in 640x480 screens - the Ok and Cancel buttons are always shown and can always be clicked, no detail of frames/dialogs is hidden because they don't fit on the screen. I prefer idea to be designed to bigger screens - 1024x768 is reasonable at the moment - and the possibility to use smaller screens be there through scrollbars than have a mess of a design only to support small screens. > Ciao, > Gordon Carlos _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
