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Preference overflow

Ted Miller
2020-08-01
2020-08-17
  • Ted Miller

    Ted Miller - 2020-08-01

    After compiling MTFM in a virtual machine, I started the program. It came up in the virtual console and looked OK.

    Then I clicked on Settings / Preferences. The screen was only set to 1024x768. The main window fit OK, but the Preferences box overflowed by quite a bit, and there is no way to scroll it.

    Even with the screen height set to 960, it still overflows so much that I cannot see the ACCEPT button. The only way to change preferences was to go to another computer and reverse engineer the tab order so that I could use the enter key to save preferences.

    I remembered that I had used MTFM on a Windows laptop with a ??? x 768 pixel screen, and it fit OK, so I got out the screen rulers. Size are give or take a couple of pixels.
    CentOS 8: 609x978
    Windows 10: 452x690

    The laptop I was using for my Linux use of MTFM has a full-HD screen, so I had not noticed the issue earlier.

    Ted in Indiana

     
    • Frans van den Bergh

      Hi Ted,

      Thanks for letting me know. I think it is time that I start using tabs to reduce the number of entries on a given dialog, I was kind of pushing my luck lately by just adding new entries an allowing the dialog to grow without bound.

      Regards,
      Frans

       
  • Frans van den Bergh

    Hi Ted,

    Version 0.7.30 now has a tabbed Preferences dialog, and measures only 500-and-something pixels in height at the moment. I can still tune it --- let me know if this works better.

    Regards,
    Frans

     

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