Hi Guys, I know I mentioned this sometime before but never got to following through since it was just cosmetic but as I get more confident with the code, I have begun to fiddle and see if I can work things out even if I can't actually fix things.
Today's problem involves layout of text associated with check boxes in the preferences. I am using the compose page but the problems are exibited on all pages with checkboxes that have more than a certain width of text. To see what I mean, center your attention on the line with: "Detect and remove signature when replying [X]" On my screen, the initial "D" is cropped and the "e" is hard against the margin next to the scrollbar. Initially, I thought there was just insufficient space so I widened the screen but no matter how much you widen it, the "D" never appeared. I also noticed that if you draw a vertical line from theline below beginning "This" up to the line several lines above starting"There are several", the word "etect" starts a good half character to theleft of this line. This made me wonder why so I figured out that the codefor this was in wxOptionsDlg.cpp and I went and found this line (line 1180)and put an "X" in front of the "D" giving me "XDetect ...". I did make &&make install and went to the compose preferences and now I have the whole word "Detect" but I do not see the "X". As such, it appears the code for sizing / laying out lines with checkboxes with text over a certain length is swallowing the first character. I also looked at the layout of the rest of the screen. Is there any good reason why the left hand margin of check boxes is not the same as the margin of the other text entry boxes? It looks silly having the check boxes offset to the left by the width of a check box to me :-( The whole checkbox lines look like they are off by one to the left to me. Does this make any sense? I tried to follow the code to see how it works but that is several levels above me at present! The above effect can be seen on any of the pref panels that have a lot of text next to a checkbox. Another visual thing I notice is that the space between text and it's associated radio box border is several mm greater than between any other text and control combination. Is there any reason? On Message view panel, you can have "Colorize" or you can have "Colourise". +1 vote for the English spelling rather than the American spelling ;-) +2 votes for finding another word altogether (although I couldn't :-( ) Actually, even just the word "Colour" would work. I also find that focus for the mousewheel in the different areas of the preferences does not work as desired. I'm sure you can experiment with clicking and scrolling in the two scrollbars, the icon section and the config tabs. It seems to me that gtk1 based apps in general are pretty screwed as far as common sense use of wheelmice are concerned. It will be interesting to see how this goes when I get a Windows M compiled. HTH/TIA Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
