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

[Vaclav Slavik]

Greg Chicares wrote:
> 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.

16x16 looks rather out of place in GTK+. The common value is 24x24, 
but it's theme-configurable in theory.

As for the menus, the best thing to do under wxGTK is to use standard 
IDs (LMI alread does, IIRC), not provide icons and let the toolkit 
assign its standard icons. (I'm yet to test if all of items that 
currently have icons are covered, though.)

> 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.

Another reason to revert to PNG originals is that they are antialiased 
and aliased icons look out of place in GTK+ (and, I think, MSW too 
these days).

Vaclav

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