Dialog-Library - Wishlist

[Andre]

Currently you can't even resize included gadgets inside a ScrollArea (e.g. like a listicon, which should get a greater width, when the window + container was resized to a larger size) manualy with ResizeGadget(). At least this should be possible to adapt the gadgets inside a ScrollArea manually after dialog resize.

I reached this limitation several times again now, and the only workaround is to use a ScrollAreaGadget / ContainerGadget in the dialog declaration and manually add all gadgets inside of it, to be able to resize this inner gadgets manually after a dialog resize.
But as you can imagine, this is a lot of effort...

So (again) this would be an important point and great help, if the Dialog library could be improved on this... (and all other wishes)

[PureLust]

@Fred,

while you are working on some alignment and size issues within the Dialog-Library...

Maybe you can include, that hidden Gadgets will be calculated with zero size?

So even though one can't remove a Gadget without recreating the Dialog, this will have nearly the same effect and will be very helpful.

[Andre]

Maybe you can include, that hidden Gadgets will be calculated with zero size?

So even though one can't remove a Gadget without recreating the Dialog, this will have nearly the same effect and will be very helpful.

A very good idea

[Cyllceaux]

oh.. I use the hidden gadgets to give StringGadgets, Trees and ListViews a default size.
My StringGadgets have most a Background text.

The Problem is, when you work with higher DPI a "width=50" is messed up.
But a hidden TextGadget with a Text has a perfect Width for this...
Or Gadgets based on Canvas

I use exzessive "Multibox" for this

[PureLust]

@Fred, . . . Maybe you can include, that hidden Gadgets will be calculated with zero size?

[PUSH] ... maybe as an feature-update for PB 6.00?

[macros]

I would also love to see the first suggestion implemented (Calculate width/height of hidden elements as zero) to allow smoothly adjusting additional toolbars or elements. An example would be a color picker in a drawing application which can be hidden away.

Edit: To prevent changing behaviour of old software this could be enabled via an XML attribute.

The second suggestion of adjusting gridbox columns would be good too, although I do not deem it nearly as important as suggestion one.

[PureLust]

Because I was gone for quite some time, I'm wondering, if there have been any changes / improvements to the Dialog-Library within the last 5 years.

Maybe someone would be so kind as to bring me up to date?

[jacdelad]

Unfortunately not much, basically just the new gadgets added.
I've been here for some time now to know that there's a good chance one day Fred will release a sudden beta which addresses the dialog library without warning. He's full of surprises.