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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Igor,

I agree with you partially. We should definitely use sizers, without 
exception. There is no reason to not use them, ever.

Yes to sizers!


But on the resizeable aspect of Dialogs, I prefer that also. I want to 
resize my dialogs, so lets not change that. These sizers are one 
subject, resizeable dialogs is another.

I thought my position on resizeable dialogs should be clear from my 
earlier time investments and source code commits.

Dick


> Hello!
>
> The problems of KiCad dialogs is the
> 1. Fixed positions and dimensions of elements. When I try to
> translate interface to russian, then some parts of text become not visible.
> 2. Strange placement of buttons in some dialogs.
> 3. Some dialogs don't have default buttons.
>
>
> Dear writers of dialogs, please, look at
>
> How to use "Sizer" in wxWidgets.
>
> http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_sizeroverview.html
>
> About dialogs:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/windows-dialog.html.en
>
> Buttons usage:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/controls-buttons.html.en
>
> Human interface guidelines:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/
>
> In some commits I saw the ugly attempts to avoid the problems with
> strings length by usage of resizeable window of dialogs.
> But, if "Sizer" will be used, then resizeable attribute does not
> required for window.