MC IDE v2.6b7 package (was: Re: Filters for Transcript Dictionary)

[Wilhelm Sanke]

Half out of the door while leaving for a week, a short feedback to two 
points raised.

Richard Gaskin wrote:

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>>  - The width of the Tools and Help menubuttons of the Menubar needs 
>> to be adjusted, e.g. "Message Box" etc. is not fully readable
>
>
> I don't understand: "Message Box" is the name of a menu button; it's a 
> menu item in the Tools menu. Are you saying that your copy of the 
> engine is clipping the rendering of pull-down menus on your system?



Some menuitems are clipped off on WindowsXP, namely in menus Help and Tools.

 

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>>     - As already mentioned by others, the width of the dialogs needs 
>> to be adjusted, too.
>>
>>     For the answer dialog this can be done in the last line of the 
>> following repeat-handler of the card script by changing the former 14 
>> of the added width to 28
>>
>> "repeat with i = 2 to nchoices + 1
>>     show button i
>>     set the name of button i to line nchoices + 2 - i of it
>>     set the width of button i to the formattedWidth of button i + 32
>>     add the width of button i + 28 to bwidth #this is the line
>>   end repeat"
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> That loop adjusts the width of the buttons only, and has been updated 
> (for Mac at least) in b7 to honor the Aqua HIG. If Micro$oft ever 
> chooses to finish their HIG to include such specifications for 
> controls we can honor those as well.
>
> But aside from the buttons, the width of the dialogs seems much better 
> than Rev's, where they can be very, very wide.


This is what I have pointed out on various occasions (e.g. see my 
website) that generally Metacard dialogs do not have these sometimes 
excessive widths, even disappearing beyond the screen.

Nevertheless, the repeat  loop above influences the width of  the whole 
stack, too, through "bwidth"

> What sort of change to the dialog width did you have in mind?


What others have already referred to and what I had in mind, too, is the 
fact that the width of the dialogs in the latest MC_IDE is too *narrow* 
- clipping off part of its own buttons (on WindowsXP).

Changing the value from 14 to 28 as I proposed above for the loop will 
remedy this deficiency, I tested it; you then have a *balanced* width 
again. -

I'll address the other points later next week.

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke