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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/1/2011 6:15 PM, Marco Mattila wrote:
> Now there should be a little something for everyone in the latest
> revision. It was possible to make the plot dialog a little smaller by
> getting rid of the radio buttons and moving the output directory field
> (although I'm not sure it's in the right place now...). I also agree
> that the dialog is a bit too square. It's hard to make the height
> smaller. And it doesn't make sense to make the window wider than
> necessary. I can later take a look at how using wxCheckListBox affects
> the layout. Wayne, you did mean that width>height, right?

Not necessarily.  It's just the ratio of 1.6 to 1 seems to be pleasing
to the human eye.  Artists and architects have known this for a long
time.  Check out Wikipedia's page.  It's one of those strange things
that just seems to work.

Wayne

> 
> Jerry asked about saving the outputdirectory in the board file. That's
> the way it has been for a few revisions already.
> 
> marco
> 
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