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Bug 120544

Summary:	About dialog too wide (or else image should be centered)
Product:	platform	Reporter:	tomwheeler <tomwheeler>
Component:	Window System	Assignee:	issues@platform <issues>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	dsimonek, saubrecht
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Help -> About Dialog Screenshot Illustrating Issue Patch which centers image both horizontally and vertically in Help:About dialog

Description tomwheeler 2007-10-30 19:35:17 UTC

The dialog shown after clicking the Help->About menu displays the about.png image.  If this image is too large (more
than about 525 pixels wide by about 250 pixels high), than the image is simply cropped.  If the image is smaller (e.g.
333 x 250), then the image is not cropped but is left-aligned in the dialog box with extra whitespace to the right and
looks strange.  

I see two easy solutions: make the dialog size be based upon the size of the about.png image and/or center the image in
the dialog box.  This will improve the appearance when using smaller images.

For context, this seems related to http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=112932

Comment 1 tomwheeler 2007-10-30 19:57:46 UTC

Created attachment 52053 [details]
Help -> About Dialog Screenshot Illustrating Issue

Comment 2 David Simonek 2008-10-24 12:32:48 UTC

Valid, should be relative simple to implement. Anyone from community is interested in working on it?

Comment 3 tomwheeler 2011-04-12 18:17:42 UTC

Created attachment 107694 [details]
Patch which centers image both horizontally and vertically in Help:About dialog

I have developed a patch which fixes the problem I originally reported.  I verified that it centers the image (both horizontally and vertically) in the Help -> About dialog.   I did so using three images of various dimensions under MS Windows XP.   Although I was able to test only on MS Windows, I have no reason to suspect it wouldn't work on other platforms.

Comment 4 Stanislav Aubrecht 2011-04-13 10:01:13 UTC

core-main 5c59d9e8ccc4

thank you for the patch!

Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2011-04-22 05:06:36 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201104220000* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/5c59d9e8ccc4
User: S. Aubrecht <saubrecht@netbeans.org>
Log: #120544 - centered image in About panel

Comment 6 tomwheeler 2011-04-28 16:26:27 UTC

Thanks for integrating it.  I verified it using the nightly build from 2011-04-26.