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Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized

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On 9/30/2013 8:10 PM, John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article <l2cpku$mau$1@dont-email.me>,
>   Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>>       Perhaps it's time to ask a question: Why do you think it's a
>>>> good idea to prevent the user from arranging his own screen as he
>>>> pleases?  Does your program understand the user's needs and
>>>> desires better than he himself does?
>>>
>>> I've used such a program.
>>
>>       Did you enjoy it?  ;-)
>>
>>       That is: Did you consider it a benefit, a point in the
>> program's favor, when the program's window resisted all your efforts
>> to make it larger?  Did this behavior improve your experience of
>> using the program?
>
> I too have used such a program, almost daily, and I do not enjoy it.
> This example is somewhat contrived, but it gives the flavor of the
> experience.
>
> <http://stackoverflow.com/a/12532237/230513>

     Yeah, although I was thinking more about "accessibility,"
as it's now often called.  Somebody with vision difficulties
may well use a

	M  U  C  H     L  A  R  G  E  R     F  O  N  T
	M  U  C  H     L  A  R  G  E  R     F  O  N  T
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than the programmer gifted with good eyesight had anticipated.
The large-font user might not be pleased at being forced to
scroll back and forth and back and forth instead of just making
the damn' window wider.

     Now, perhaps the programmer is foresighted enough to
calculate his NoBiggerThan dimension based on the chosen font
size (if that's straightforward; I don't know how well Java
font metrics interact with externally-imposed overrides).
But wouldn't it be simpler just to let the user adjust the
window to whatever dimensions he likes?

     We programmers grow accustomed to issuing commands to our
computers, telling them what to do in every circumstance (the
entire art of debugging amounts to discovering how our own
commands differ from what we really meant).  The tendency to
treat the users as extensions of our computers -- to command
them the same way we do the machines -- must be resisted.

     Clusardi: If your goal proves difficult or even impossible
to achieve, that may not be entirely a Bad Thing.  Try to look
on the bright side, and strike a blow for libertarianism.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-09-20 12:43 -0700
  Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-20 17:16 -0400
    Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-09-21 11:40 -0700
      Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-21 22:46 -0400
        Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized "clus@aol.com" <clusardi2k@aol.com> - 2013-09-30 08:08 -0700
          Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-30 11:29 -0400
            Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-30 16:24 -0400
              Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-30 17:15 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-30 20:10 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-30 20:38 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-30 22:16 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-09-30 22:32 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-01 03:28 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-01 03:41 -0400
                Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-01 20:04 -0400
            Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-10-01 05:39 -0700
              Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-10-01 09:37 -0400
      Re: Is there something better than ComponentListener on Resized "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-22 19:57 -0400

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