[Freeciv-Dev] Re: non-readable messages (PR#1529)

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:33:30PM +0100, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:07:38AM -0700, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > CVS 03 JUNE 2002 GTK 1.2
> > >
> > > Some Messages don't fit into the message window (F10).
> > > This can't be solved by l18n, because it is not possible
> > > to break those lines. If you enlarge the window manually,
> > > you have to do this again and again, because the windows's
> > > size isn't saved.
> > >
> >
> > The patch which was applied to fix this has only made things
> > worse. If nothing helps, I'll cut down the german text lines
> > a lot to avoid this. But *please* undo this patch.
> >
> > It would help IMO if the messages which are too long are divided
> > into 2 lines, but I don't know whether it is intention of the
> 
> That is highly cumbersome to implement. GTK+ doesn't autowrap GtkCList
> rows, and manually implementing word wrapping is, as you probably are
> aware, non-trivial (e.g. you must know the exact font size, and the
> window size of a window before opening it, and making your own widget is
> not a good option).

Yes, I have thought of making two messages out of one:

  1. Greeks have researched Electricity
  2. Greeks decide to go for Steel.

o. s.th. like this

> 
> > developers to have it in 1 line.
> 
> 1 line with scrollbars is the best option. I can increase (again) the size
> of the dialog to the previous size, and keep the scrollbars. I didn't
> notice i deleted that line of code because i had previously saved the
> message options window size with kwm (Store Settings) and forgot about it.
> 
> Would that be satisfactory?

I'm very much against scrollbars. I have no kwm.

Christian

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