Re: Two Questions

From: Richard F.L.R.Snashall (rflrs_at_notnotrcn.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:46:02 -0500

Fred L. Kleinschmidt wrote:
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>>2) I have one individual (only one that speaks up anyway) that has
>> problems with this. In order to fit it all in, I had to reduce
>> the height of all labels/checkboxes/textfields/etc. to a height
>> of 20. The problem is that the characters in his execution of
>> the GUI are all drawn above the half-way point in each item.
>> The top of the component chops off the top of each character
>> (except in JLabels, where the character seems to stick up above
>> the component a tad).
>>
>> I'm using Sun ONE Studio 4 to construct the GUI. I have tried
>> a forced setting of the Font size and forcing the margin to zero
>> at both the bottom and top, both to no avail. What else have
>> I missed?
>>
>> (This individual uses 1.4, so that may have some impact here.)
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> If there is difficult to "fit it all in", then there is something wrong
> with your design. It needs to be broken up into multiple dialogs, or use
> a scrolled window.

See question 1. I can get neither the tabbed panes nor scrolled pane
to work. I think this may be my inability to visualize how these
would look as I am designing them in the IDE. I was able to force
a scroll bar in, but it wouldn't auto-size to the frame. I'll have
to try a few more permutations.

> You should never force the user to use a specific font - she may have
> poor eyesight and need to use a font that is larger than that used by
> other users.

This was an attempt to identify the problem. Why do the letters get
shifted and chopped off -- whether the fixed Font is used or not. In
both 1.5 and 1.4.2 when running on my platform (and others), it does not
get chopped off.

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