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am on solaris, ja locale, using pseudo localized nb - the go to file window does not show all of the Prefer Current Project project name (see gif attached) users might run at larger fontsizes - this is 14 in image, and translated strings might be longer than in english; and with more euro languages being localized for nb, that is more true in those languages user should not need to resize to see all contents of the window.
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IMO, the size of the dialog is fine. I understand your points, but making every dialog as big as to fit all messages in every possible language would make most of them too big and too ugly. Visual appearance is always a compromise. In this case a compromise between UI engineers trying to make dialogs look good and localizers trying to fit in translated messages. I think that this particular dialog is large enough to accommodate messages in all reasonable languages. I am sorry, but I'm closing this as WONTFIX. Please reopen if you disagree.
I agree with your comments; I think the question is - has this dialog/window been coded to dynamically resize using the layout manager and related features ? From past experience, when dialogs were coded this way, the dynamic resizing happened ok. And that solves the problem of needing to design for every language. Has it been coded in that way ? If not, can you reopen and look into that ? BTW, IMO translators do not and should not need to get messages to fit - that is part of the design of the product and allowing for the dynamic resizing is part of that. We've seen the coding that way has fixed by far most of the resizing issues. ken.frank@sun.com
I'd like to get further comment to my questions and comments - since I think the opinion given is not really correct - and by far most resize issues are fixed and not closed as this one was. its not about fixing for every possible language or font size since by coding to allow windows to resize dynamically solves the problems in most cases, vs hardcoding. and certainly its not accurate that translators are supposed to fit translations into the available size of some dialog or window - thats not an accurate statement. ken.frank@sun.com
Ok, I'll have a look.
Local changeset: ee029bc54875
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200810011401* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/ee029bc54875 User: Vita Stejskal <vstejskal@netbeans.org> Log: #108970 - making the labels resizable
using 1005 trunk, does not look fixed; using 16 pt font, still a valid and reasonable font size, problem same as in original image. ken.frank@sun.com
But resizing the dialog shows the label or not?
Ken, could you please answer above question? Thanks.
Max, thanks for the reminder on this. Yes, when resize, it shows all of the part not seen as per the gif. one other comment - I noticed in results that there a 2 columns but looks like fixed size so that if result text in first col is too long, it cuts text off; same for col 2 this is true for other go to windows that might have > 1 column - I suggest using jtable or other object that has specific columns that user can resize themself, so even if whole results area in a fixed size, user can still see all in each col by resize. also perhaps instead or in addition a scrollbar for this area. this part is not related to translated things since with long values it might happen even in english let me know if separate issue is appropriate at all and if so, is needed vs being within this issue. ken.frank@sun.com
can't try on not localized nb because of issue 152073
Go To File dialog -> utilities/jumpto
Tooltip with full file path was added.
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200905200201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/16b848191fe0 User: Andrey Yamkovoy <kaktus@netbeans.org> Log: Fix for #108970 - I18N - goto file dialog not resize completely