Re: [Flightgear-devel] Resizable dialog boxes

[Melchior F. <mf...@ao...>]

* Curtis Olson -- Tuesday 20 January 2009:
> The resizable dialog boxes are very nice!

Yeah, especially property browser and Nasal console profit
a lot. It's actually a bit embarrassing that we haven't had
that since years, and I take my share of the blame. I had
even started implementing it a few years back, but gave up
early. This time it was Mate KOCH's "complaint" about the
<textbox>, where fonts couldn't be changed. I implemented
this and changed the font in the nasal console to a fixed
width font, which is much easier for editing. But the text
was too wide then, so I first added a [+] and [-] button that
would re-open the dialog bigger or smaller. But that didn't
work well, so ...

And that wasn't the end of the story: because line-wrapping
in the nasal console is also bad, I turned that off, only to
notice that the sliders didn't work well, and finally I ended
up rewriting bigger parts of plib. It will soon be recommended
(but not required) to use plib/svn. (Only parts of that are
committed at the moment.)

m.  :-)