Re: (no subject)

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:27:58AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> What he meant is that if you make your control a fixed size, and it
> contains some text, then that text may be too big to fit in the control
> when it is translated to a different language.

At the risk of stating the obvious...

different users have different fonts and screen resolutions, so
fixed sized objects can be a disaster.  Don't assume that all users
are running XF86 on a PC with the same fonts and resolution as you -
some may be running a different X server or have installed
different fonts, and string widths will differ.

Lee

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author, The Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley, August 2000
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