Well, Frank,
I cannot speak about the Mac since I have never owned or operated one. I am
not in any way attempting to refute what you say, since I am not
knowledgeable in engineering or programming issues; all I have attempted to
do is pass on the information I have been given over the years as to why
fonts and dialog boxes, menus and toolboxes, and pallets are fixed and
designed to be so.
A similar situation exists apparently with respect to the number of item
that can be listed in the Photoshop filters menu. It is finitely defined by
Adobe in such a manner that third parties cannot design applications to get
around that limitation even though there is nothing in the Windows OS that
restricts the number of items that can be put in any single dialog box or
menu.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Frank Paris
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 5:31 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Laurie Solomon
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 11:05 AM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
>
>
> I concur with you that fixed fonts, menus, dialog boxes, and tool
> boxes are
> a design decision by Adobe. My understanding from posts over the
> years in a
> number of forums and mailing lists was that the decision was made that it
> was too much of a pain in the programming ass to program for
> dynamic dialog
> boxes and fonts in their interface because any change in font size toward
> the larger would overrun the space allocated for buttons, dialog
> boxes, and
> menus while allowing for dynamic dialog boxes, buttons, palettes,
> etc. makes
> laying out the interface very complex and costly.
I can't speak for the Macintosh, but under Windows this all happens
automatically. You have to go out of your way to stop it.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
