Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Rogers
> William White wrote: >> I recently had a situation where I had been working on a dual monitor setup >> and had inadvertently left a dialog parked on my secondary monitor. Then I >> closed out of FM. When I relaunched FM, the secondary monitor was not >> available for some reason, meaning that t

Re: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Rogers
> William White wrote: >> I recently had a situation where I had been working on a dual monitor setup >> and had inadvertently left a dialog parked on my secondary monitor. Then I >> closed out of FM. When I relaunched FM, the secondary monitor was not >> available for some reason, meaning that t

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Rogers
Whites wrote: > Hi Stuart > > Any specifics on the changes that should be made, or would they be > obvious to one of my P++ conversant buddies? > > Will Hi Will, It's a fairly intuitive interface. Once you locate the offending dialog box, you can change it by editing the numeric values in t

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Rogers
Whites wrote: > Hello All > > Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. > > I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arbitrary size - even > much larger or smaller than the active region within the dialog. (I'm > not being very descriptive here.) Say the active region (entry > fields, lists, et

Re: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Will... I actually at times found this "feature" to be useful .. rather than closing and reopening a dialog, I'd just roll it up (drag the bottom up so all that's left is the titlebar), then roll it back down when needed. if only there was a little button on the titlebar that would do that.

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Will... I actually at times found this "feature" to be useful .. rather than closing and reopening a dialog, I'd just roll it up (drag the bottom up so all that's left is the titlebar), then roll it back down when needed. if only there was a little button on the titlebar that would do that.

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Combs, Richard
Whites wrote: > Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. > > I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arbitrary size > - even much larger or smaller than the active region within > the dialog. (I'm not being very descriptive here.) Say the > active region (entry fields, lists, etc) is 2 x 3. I ca

Re: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Rogers
Whites wrote: > Hi Stuart > > Any specifics on the changes that should be made, or would they be > obvious to one of my P++ conversant buddies? > > Will Hi Will, It's a fairly intuitive interface. Once you locate the offending dialog box, you can change it by editing the numeric values in t

Re: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Prentice
The resource hacker won't "fix" this issue, it will just let you change the fixed size of the dialog or placement/size of the widgets in the dialog. Fundamentally FM dialogs are not resizable .. that is, when you resize the dialog, the contents don't resize with the frame. This is an odd "featu

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Prentice
The resource hacker won't "fix" this issue, it will just let you change the fixed size of the dialog or placement/size of the widgets in the dialog. Fundamentally FM dialogs are not resizable .. that is, when you resize the dialog, the contents don't resize with the frame. This is an odd "featu

RE: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Combs, Richard
Whites wrote: > Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. > > I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arbitrary size > - even much larger or smaller than the active region within > the dialog. (I'm not being very descriptive here.) Say the > active region (entry fields, lists, etc) is 2 x 3. I c

Re: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Whites
Hi Stuart Any specifics on the changes that should be made, or would they be obvious to one of my P++ conversant buddies? Will On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote: > Whites wrote: >> Hello All >> Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. >> I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arb

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Whites
Hi Stuart Any specifics on the changes that should be made, or would they be obvious to one of my P++ conversant buddies? Will On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote: > Whites wrote: >> Hello All >> Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. >> I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arb

Re: Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Stuart Rogers
Whites wrote: > Hello All > > Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. > > I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arbitrary size - even > much larger or smaller than the active region within the dialog. (I'm > not being very descriptive here.) Say the active region (entry > fields, lists, et

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Whites
Hello All Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arbitrary size - even much larger or smaller than the active region within the dialog. (I'm not being very descriptive here.) Say the active region (entry fields, lists, etc) is 2 x 3. I can extend the

Dialog box annoyance

2008-03-07 Thread Whites
Hello All Using FM 7.1/7,2 on Win XP sp2. I'm able to resize any dialog box in FM to any arbitrary size - even much larger or smaller than the active region within the dialog. (I'm not being very descriptive here.) Say the active region (entry fields, lists, etc) is 2 x 3. I can extend the