ghisler(Author) wrote: 2023-05-23, 22:37 UTC
Again, what would you use as the maximum width? Why have a big screen and then not use it?
Too long lines are hard to read (not my invention, but a known fact). On large monitors, text appears outside the user's ideal field of view. If I switch TC to full screen view, it mostly just displays blank space and I would wring my head when using it. That's why my TC is about 1/3 the width of the screen.
Last edited by jbcb on 2023-05-24, 09:58 UTC, edited 1 time in total.
interesting. what's exactly the problem here? it gets displayed only temporarily when the "button" is pressed.
i think it's good to see as much as possible here...
I suggest characters.
For me pixels is for developers and not for normal usage.
That does not really control the width then, but the amount of data shown, as iiiiiiiiiiii is less wide than wwwwwwwwwwww.
Perhaps % of panel width? I.e. "how much of the panel I am willing to cover with the directory history".
Roman
Mal angenommen, du drückst Strg+F, wählst die FTP-Verbindung (mit gespeichertem Passwort), klickst aber nicht auf Verbinden, sondern fällst tot um.
Unfortunately it's not that simple: I'm currently limiting the width to half of the screen, then call DrawText with option "DT_PATH_ELLIPSIS". This causes Windows to shorten the path so the most relevant parts at the start and end stay intact. I can't just shorten the path to, say, 100 characters by cutting the end when the users sets a limit of 100 characters. Also I can't simply translate the 100 characters to a screen width because 100 "W" take much more space than 100 "i" characters.
With such a reduced width it can sometimes be impossible to distinguish between different paths.
TW wrote: 2023-05-24, 11:25 UTC
interesting. what's exactly the problem here? it gets displayed only temporarily when the "button" is pressed.
i think it's good to see as much as possible here...
That's why my TC is about 1/3 the width of the screen.
