RE: Maximum size of a dialog box?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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> Subject: Maximum size of a dialog box?
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> Good Morning all,
>  
> I was recently asked by the QA dept if there was a rule to 
> define the maximum size of a dialog box? And that would work 
> for all environments.?
> Some of our dialog boxes are so big that on some machines 
> (Unix/Linux), the users can't see the entire dialog box. 
> These are not resizable either.

Who's in charge there? 

>  
> I am working with development to move things around, but for 
> the future...it would be nice to tell them you cannot exceed 
> x by y. Any one faced these issues? Any pointers, 

I would bat this back up to the product manager. The whole thing sounds
surreal.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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