[sldev] Translations

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:54 +0900, Alissa Sabre wrote:
> (2) Make dialog box components (controls) to adjust their sizes based
>     on the content texts.  This approach is used in Java
>     (Both Swing and SWT do this).
> 
>     The drawback is the difficult dialog box design.  If you are
>     designing some complex dialog box with a lot of controls, you need
>     to express some _constraints_ that describe how to adjust the
>     overall layout when the size of the controls change.

This is the only sane way to do it, especially in a world where we need
to be able to dynamically scale the UI since some laptop LCDs are
approaching 300dpi, or people may be looking at an HDTV from across the
room.

The last remaining grid layout users are deprecated or dead, classic
MacOS, and classic windows. WinForms, OSX, and most X11 toolkits support
constraint based layouts.
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