So, this is day one for Novell’s Hack Week. This week, we, Novell hackers, are allowed to work on whatever project we like. And I chose to work on making VCL dialog resizable.
Michael Meeks already did the ground work, and all I’m trying to do is to do what I can in one week to expand on his work. This is also one of on-going GSoC tasks, so I’m also co-ordinating with the student who’s been assigned to work on this (his name is Ricardo Cruz) so that we won’t step on each other’s toes.
Here is what I did today. I added a wrapper code for a list box control so that I can actually use it in my resizable dialog and add items to it. Let’s show some screenshots here.
I posted two shots of the same, but differently-sized dialog just to show that it’s resizable. Pretty cool, huh? :-)
Oh, BTW, since I’m away from my normal business this week, I won’t be working on the OOXML filter. I’ll be back on my regular schedule on next Monday.
Resizable dialog box is one of the most signicant UI enhacement since 2.0. There are lots of dialog that can’t be effective without this functionality. I hope you can find enough resource to finsh it, and It may be the part of 2.4 :oD
Thanks,
KAMI
There’s no resize handle on the bottom right, so it doesn’t look like it is resizeable.
Resizeable dialogs is an useful enhancement. Lots of dialogs scream for bigger or changable size. I hope you will success with this task and we can see the “enhanced experience” in 2.4.
Thank you,
KAMI
This is a huge help. One of the worst dialogs is the one in Writer for entering notes. It comes up with a multi-line text widget. This window does not resize, and to make it worse does not word wrap or spell check!
The notes dialog will disappear completely soon. :-)
OpenOffice finally has resizable dialogs?
Microsoft Office has had that for decades!
Are you really Steve Ballmer? Your network address (87-194-115-69.bethere.co.uk) originates from the UK.
Shaun, this is still an early prototype, so there is a lot of things that just don’t work. I’m sure we’ll add a resizable handle once we are in the polishing phase.