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Bug 34103 - I18N - Some parts of property windows do not fully appear in other locales when translated and/or using larger font sizes
Summary: I18N - Some parts of property windows do not fully appear in other locales wh...
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 34157
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: Sun Solaris
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: _ tboudreau
URL:
Keywords: I18N
Depends on:
Blocks: 33246
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Reported: 2003-06-02 20:33 UTC by Ken Frank
Modified: 2008-12-23 12:55 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:


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properties window (9.12 KB, image/gif)
2003-06-02 20:44 UTC, Ken Frank
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Description Ken Frank 2003-06-02 20:33:32 UTC
I am guessing that all properties windows,
like invoked from explorer nodes, follow same
sizing guidelines.
Using pseudo localized product, with each message
or label
having additional multibyte text, and using
-fontsize 16
option, running in Chinese locale,
, bring up various property windows, like
from a file node on explorer, right click and
choose properties - many such windows appear as
in attachment, with not all of the left side
(key) value showing.

As to the right side of it (value of property),
don't know if all should show since these can
be varying values and can be changed by user and
some could be long; so can be expected that 
vertical resizing bar be used.
Chinese localization will use a larger font than
default
one now used so these issues will be more visible
to them,
but this can also be viewed as a general or a11y
issue
since may be visible to users in english locale
who use
larger fonts.

Assumption is that user should be able to see
all items in a given window when it appears and
should
not need to resize it to see those things.

That is, the UI area or window should dynamically
resize
itself to show the needed contents.
(this does not apply to contents of textfields,
areas
controlled by scrollbars)

To emulate in non multibyte locale without
multibyte
in messages or longer messages, you may need to
run
with fontsize 18 or 20 to see what we are seeing
with
fontsize 16. Even with larger sizes, it may not be
seen
exactly the same due to the effect of multibyte
and longer
strings.

This issue is marked with the FONTSIZE keywork;
bugs so
marked will not appear on quality dashboards and
will not
need to be waived or fixed for English FCS
products of this
release.

For Netbeans issues, this will be marked as
blocking 33246.
Comment 1 Ken Frank 2003-06-02 20:44:10 UTC
Created attachment 10561 [details]
properties window
Comment 2 mslama 2003-06-03 10:22:19 UTC
Assigning to Dafe
Comment 3 David Simonek 2003-06-11 14:30:57 UTC
Clarification - issue is that texts in individual properties in
properties window are stripped off. Right?

Actually, there are two kinds of properties window. Generic one (menu
View/Properties) and specific (right click popup menu / Properties).

For Generic one, we have implementation problem with fixing -  to make
property window more wide, special window system configuration must be
developed for chinese localization, not easy. Moreover, it's
impossible to assure that all property texts and values will fit in,
it can always be longer then you expect and dynamic sizing of docked
property window is very bad from UI point of view.

For specific property window type, it's more easily possible to
compute the right size before window is shown. There could be
performance problems, though.

Tim, could I ask you to handle this issue for me? Thx.
Comment 4 _ tboudreau 2003-06-11 15:35:03 UTC
My fix for issue 34157 should cover most, probably all of the problems
supplied here - it modifies the preferred size of the property sheet
based on the font size.

The two cases where this may still be a problem are:
 - The property sheet in the bottom left of the main window in
MDI mode - its size is determined by some XML files in the core
window system
 - The property sheet in the Component Inspector window of the
Form editor

Please test this issue with the current trunk, and file 
individual issues for either of the above, if they are a 
problem, against the window system and form editor, respectively.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 34157 ***
Comment 5 Marian Mirilovic 2003-07-22 10:18:14 UTC
verified - it's duplicate.