Bugzilla nr. 1032 -> 2081

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Fri Aug 27 10:35:07 EDT 2004


The new bug number is 2081,

I stuck with "center" as the suggested item, and added "obscure" 
vertical alignment as an equivalent to "center", only with the icon 
over top of the text.

On Aug 27, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com wrote:

>> And you do have a couple of neat proposals for the
>> vertical text alignment ; though for clarity, I'd
>> replace "center" with "middle" for this property.
>> Will you bugzilla these and let us know the number so
>> we can vote for it ?
>>
>> Jan Schenkel.
>
> "middle"???? I have --never-- seen "middle" used as a centering term in
> modern software products. It would be confusing to me to have to use
> "center" for some things, and "middle" for others in Transcript. Could 
> it
> not be done in an even simpler way? For example, by default text is
> centered at the bottom of a button when an icon is present. Could their
> not be a property that is either true of false for text over an icon?
> Like...
>
> set the textOverlay of btn 1 to true  -- Text ON TOP OF the icon
>
> set the textOverlay of btn 1 to false -- Text at bottom of the button
>
> In either case, the text would be horizontally centered. If more 
> control
> is desired beyond overlaying the button text, then yes the previous
> suggestions regarding allignment would provide a more versitile 
> solution.
> Sometimes, simplicity is best though IMHO.
>
> Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
>
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