Re: [lmi] wx-2.8.7: long menuitem truncated

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-03-13 02:28Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
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>             <label>Pre_view calculation summary\tCtrl-V</label>
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> displays as
>   Preview calculation summarCtrl-V
>                             [^ several characters missing]

In a side conversation, Vadim mentioned that this is due to the
oversized bitmaps: msw automatically gets it right if we use
16*16 bitmaps, but we've got 24*24 today.

I'd actually rather use 16*16 bitmaps, at least on the menus.
The oversized bitmaps make the menus too many pixels long, at
least in my preferred 800*600 resolution. So instead of going
through contortions to make msw adjust to 24*24, let's just use
16*16 bitmaps.

I know some applications use large bitmaps on the toolbar. For
instance, firefox's are at least 32*32. I don't see that as an
advantage myself, so I'd be inclined simply to replace today's
24*24 bitmaps with 16*16 everywhere; but do tell me if that
seems...um...myopic.

I'm also thinking that we should use '.png' instead of '.xpm'.
The '.xpm' files we have today started out as a '.png' set in
gnome anyway. I can't remember why I converted them to '.xpm',
but I think it was a mistake. This has become significant since
I've put them in html help files: wxHTML renders X pixmaps in
help, but firefox and msie do not, and I'd like to serve the
whole user manual as normal web pages as well as via help.

IIRC, at least some of the gnome bitmaps have 16*16 variants
already. Their provenance is documented in 'README'. Finding
those originals, or converting from 24*24 to 16*16 if needed,
and then substituting '.png' for '.xpm' everywhere including
help, is a bunch of work that I can't make time for now myself,
but let's just declare that to be the strategy, and therefore
withdraw the "menuitem truncated" issue.