Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A Little More Dialog Resizing Please

It would be nice if the gang at the factory would add some re-sizing magic to this dialog too!?! The Tag All dialog can be a bit hard to deal with the type name when some company naming conventions result in long names. There's only so much room to adjust the column widths within the fixed frame of the dialog. Seems like such a minor kind of finesse?


In the past I wrote about a free utility (that David Kingham found) called Resize Enable that permits some "hacking" overrides of the dialog sizing. I just downloaded it and ran the app again tonight. It does work to allow for stretching this dialog though it gives no visual clues that it will work. You just have to trust...click and drag to see if it does and it does (true for me using Win7/64)

3 comments:

Tor Martin said...

And if you dont use the Resize Enable, you can allways hold Ctrl & scroll to use the Windows zoom. Be sure to buy some binoculars to read the text...But it can be helpfull if you just miss some of the text.

mary christmas!

Anonymous said...

While waiting for the factory to add this request, you can hold the "Ctrl" button down with your cursor in the dialog box, and adjust the zoom of the dialog box by using the scroll on the mouse. Not a complete fix but useful.

ulebule said...

Where do I sign? Totally agree and want to add I need a little bit more Dialog Resizing Please not only for this but on all the windows,,,,should be control by the user and not have limits...just bad programing if you ask me. Don't think it is a big deal to fix and make us more comfartable navigating thru Dialog boxes. However I want to add that some naming conventions are really insane and we should maybe put some limits(ok I don't like the word limits-lets call it rules of thumb) on how long a name can be....