marshalt@spiritone.com (Frank Paris) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> > [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Derek Clarke
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:57 AM
> > To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> > Subject: RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
> >
> >
> > Poor old Bill seems to be getting a lot of undeserved flak here!
> >
> > If Photoshop isn't using large fonts properly it's obviously Adobe to
> > blame.
>
> What you say is true. It's your conditional I question. I don't think
> that
> Photoshop is not using large fonts properly. It's just that it has
> chosen
> tool dialogs (a specific Windows property of dialogs) for some of its
> dialogs, and it looks like they don't size with the font size. I need to
> investigate this further, programmatically, but I'm almost sure that
> this is
> a Microsoft problem, not an Adobe problem. Maybe this weekend, I'll find
> time to write a little program and find out for sure.
>
> When a program has a bug in it because it's not handling large fonts
> properly, sections of the screen get truncated, for example, words
> overrun
> the size of buttons. This happens when controls are programmatically
> fixed
> in pixel width, instead of being allowed to size dynamically by the
> system.
> A program has to go out of its way to fail when the font size changes.
>
>
> Frank Paris
> marshalt@spiritone.com
>
An inappropriate choice of control is just as much a bug as writing it
incorrectly yourself!
You can't really argue that Adobe didn't have the opportunity to test
their work, considering the length of time that elapses between versions.
