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.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?
GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
I would suggest: HistoryWidthLimit (to match with BriefViewWidthLimit and DirTabLimit)
Should the value be in characters or pixels?
Should the value be in characters or pixels?
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
I suggest characters.
For me pixels is for developers and not for normal usage.
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
Maybe there could even be space for it in the History config - like here (with other additions from here: viewtopic.php?p=431843#p431843 included):
https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/historymockup1.png
https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/historymockup1.png
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
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...
different people, different needs i guess.
i think it's good to see as much as possible here...
different people, different needs i guess.
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super fantastic job! +++++++++
super fantastic job! +++++++++
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Horst.Epp,
Perhaps % of panel width? I.e. "how much of the panel I am willing to cover with the directory history".
Roman
That does not really control the width then, but the amount of data shown, as iiiiiiiiiiii is less wide than wwwwwwwwwwww.I suggest characters.
For me pixels is for developers and not for normal usage.
Perhaps % of panel width? I.e. "how much of the panel I am willing to cover with the directory history".
Roman
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
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.
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
With such a reduced width it can sometimes be impossible to distinguish between different paths.
That's exactly what I think
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If you can do that, you can also limit it to a user defined amount of pixels - it is up to the user to figure out what his need is.I'm currently limiting the width to half of the screen
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
Yes, I can limit it to a width in pixels, but this is problematic for users with multiple screens (e.g. laptop with dock).
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
That is their problem if they want the size limited - default should still be as it is now with half the screen as limit.but this is problematic for users with multiple screens (e.g. laptop with dock).
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Re: GIANT history menu! it covered half the screen for me!
Maybe use some other measure like x characters of average width? This way it would be scaled with the font chosen by the user.
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Looks promising... imho...
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