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Subject:Re: Maximum size of a dialog box? From:jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:13:01 -0400
It's not too surreal. We encountered a similar issue when developers moved to very high resolution displays while users and QA were using 640 * 480 as a standard (all in Windows). It takes some thinking and some specifying of just what screen resolutions you support and how.
Good luck.
> 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.
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