Martin wrote:

I have some boxes that run a VGA resolution (either 800*600 or even 640*400) and the dialogs just fit, some even are to big, and it's painfull to impossible to get to the ok button (know where it is, and count tabs untill you believe it has focus).

If you are using Gnome you can press the left Alt key and then click anywhere 
on a window. You can now drag that window around (no need to click on the title 
bar).


So make the window/dialog bigger and thinks will be even harder.

All programs usually define a minimum screen resolution. I can remember when 
last I saw an IDE that said min. resolution is 640x480. All developer tools 
(IDE's) usually require larger screen resolutions than standard desktop 
applications. This is known, but maybe Lazarus should make it clear that 
minimum resolution is 1024x768. I can't remember when last I saw anybody run 
there desktop even at 800x600.

Alternatively, the dialogs need to be redesigned to fit 640x480 or a more sane 
800x600. But I still feel, layout manager are a must with todays applications 
that get translated to many languages. Hopefully my port of MiG Layout Manager 
will be sufficiently abstracted, so that it can easily be applied to LCL as 
well - currently I'm porting MiG to fpGUI Toolkit.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/


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