Re: Maximum size of a dialog box?

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On Monday, July 14, 2008, sulbha bahl wrote: 

> 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.


The guidelines for Windows Vista are here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx

(see Recommended Sizing & Spacing)

Of course, this does not ensure it will work on a Linux box :) Hope it helps in some way, 
however.

Dana W.

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Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
Campbell Scientific, Inc. 
Microsoft MVP, Windows Help


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