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Sounds awesome!
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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When I was a young boy my parents used to sit and listen to Cliff Richard
Instead of actually coming into my room and stopping him.
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roftl irl.
too soon, too soon
MCAD
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Stolen it and passed it off as my own!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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High praise, sir, high praise!
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It's something that has been around for years, has annoyed me for years, and today has annoyed me sufficiently to vent.
Why do some windows (specifically in Microsoft applications, but I am sure in others too) have a fixed size?
I'm looking at you, VS2010 Configuration Manager!
Here;s a perfectly good grid, that I want to be able to expand the columns sufficiently to read, and to see as many items as possible - and I can't becuase someone at MS decided I wouldn't be allowed to resize the window!
Why not?
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Why not?
Because we hate you.
-- Microsoft window size product team
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_Damian S_ wrote: Microsoft window size product team
who's motto presumably would be "size isn't everything"?
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_Maxxx_ wrote: "size isn't everything"?
And "everything doesn't have to re-size"
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Size? I'd say their name gives all the info really needed around this whole dilemma. They are named MICRO SOFT after all, are they not?
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Are you suggesting he should stroke - or lick - his monitor?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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One Windows, One Size?
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It's a dialog, and they have fixed sizes; a legacy of the bad old days. The problem is (sort of) solved by moving to .NET where any form can be displayed as a dialog.
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Some dialogs have predefined sizes, but that can be overridden during design time, and adding a resize routine doesn't require a rocket surgeon.
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Exactly so, I have done it myself in the past.
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But it's WPF fer christ's sake. All forms can be resized by default, so they took steps to prevent it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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SQL Server Management Studio is the worst!
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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yes - indeedy
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Don't tell me you've never used an adobe product!
Almost all of their windows are fixed at too-****ing-tiny-to-be-of-any-****ing-use-whatsoever-because-the-devs-are-too-lazy-to-resize-their-content.
I did have a little TSR that overrode window-size fixing, but it was of limited use, and stopped working with Weven.
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well, I have, but not a great deal, and i've never noticed a problem with dialog boxes. Lots of other problems, but not that!
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My favourite is the file selector in FrameMaker's SharePoint connector. It's too narrow to include anything except the first few steps along the path to the files.
Same with their error dialogs: "Cannot open drive://step/step/ste... ". That's a lt of fruggin' use when opening the four-hundred files that make up a document.
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I can see you really don't like Adobe, much.
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Slacker007 wrote: I can see you really don't like Adobe, much. Dictionary example of the word "tautology":
I've used adobe products; I don't like adobe products.
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<GeezerWarStory>
We use Visual SourceSafe (yeah, I know, pipe down). Most of the dialogs in the application were created for Windows 3.1 dimensions , fixed in size, and a tremendous PITA to use. Even the dialogs in the 2005 'update' that were resizable started out way too small, especially with items that have more than 8 characters in the names.
A little judicious editing of the resources in the appropriate DLL using Visual Studio, and voilà! Dialogs with much bigger controls that are actually usable.
</GeezerWarStory>
Software Zen: delete this;
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