I found this in the cool new 3.5 Issues document at
<http://www.palm.com/devzone/docs/palmos35issues.html> --
> When calling FrmAlert, FrmCustomAlert or FrmCustomResponseAlert,
> the system always would resize the alert's buttons to match the
> width of the text of the button, plus a small margin. In 3.5, the
> system also imposes a minimum width of 36 pixels to improve the
> appearance.
Just a minor nit, but I believe the 36 pixel minimum width has been
implemented for a long time, definitely since at least OS 3.0. I've always
used that as my UI design standard, making all form buttons be minimum 36 x
13, with the same layout and spacing rules as alerts, and it does look a lot
more polished than apps with ragged button sizes.
I'd even suggest adding this to the Palm user interface guideline
documentation (such as it is). IMHO, there are a lot of apps with shaggy UI
layouts that could really benefit from just a little attention to minor
details like this.
-slj-
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