Re: Setup window size: a suggestion

[Garth Dahlstrom <garth at utmail dot to>]

I'm pretty useless when it comes to building stuff at a command 
line...  

I gave getting from CVS and building it a go... I've had a bunch
of headaches, I have no idea what packages I need to build it
(since I didn't install everything), I figured out for sure you
can't use GCC 3.2, had to downgrade...  btw, try searching for 
C++ compiler error in ht/dig (bye-bye +'s).

I tried the instructions at also:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00709.html

I got as far as running bootstrap.sh and I get this 
Can't find /usr/autotool/devel/bin/aclocal, which I have no idea
what package to install for...  btw, is there a tool that I can use
to find out which package to install for command 'x'?

Once I can build the setup.exe then I'll have a go at a patch,
but I'm giving up for today... 

-Garth

Northern.CA ===--
http://www.northern.ca 
Canada's Search Engine

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:18:09 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Garth,
> 
> FYI: Setup currently uses a set of static resource files for its dialogs.
> The setup developers have adopted a model where all the dialogs have the
> same size, and are drawn in the same window (IIRC, I may be mistaken).
> 
> You seem to have some experience with this kind of programming.  Why not
> check out the setup sources from cvs (see
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html for instructions) and try
> to make a patch?  If this works, I'm sure it would be widely appreciated
> by the community... :-D
> 	Igor
> 
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Garth Dahlstrom wrote:
> 
> > [was Re: RFE - Cygwin setup.exe]
> >
> > My appolgies, seems folks have started thread on this already...
> >
> > I see 2 ways to overcome the issue of the resizable installer/
> > package selection dialog size:
> >
> > Option 1) add a button to the bottom of the package selection screen
> > that says 'Zoom' and make it open only the packages selection
> > related stuff in a new modal window that is bigger/resizable.
> >
> > Option 2) rework the whole setup program to be resizable, this
> > can be done using a lot of panels that are aligned something like
> > this (I've done this in Delphi before):
> > +-Form1 --------------------+
> > |+-P1-alTop----------------+|
> > ||+P3-alClient-++P2-alRight||
> > ||| "Choose..."|| [Icon]  |||
> > ||+------------++---------+||
> > |+-------------------------+|
> > |+-P6-alClient-------------+|
> > ||                         ||
> > || () Install from Internet||
> > || () DL from Internet     ||
> > || () Install from Localdir||
> > ||                         ||
> > |+-------------------------+|
> > |+-P4-alBottom-------------+|
> > ||              +P5-alRight||
> > ||              |[buttons]|||
> > ||              +---------+||
> > |+-------------------------+|
> > +---------------------------+
> > Px is TPanel type, where x is the creation order using a gui.
> > alxxxx is the Align property of the Tpanel object.
> >
> > If I had to choose, I would do option 1 cause it is really
> > easy, and I'm lazy.  option 2 would be quite a bit more rework
> > to the way things are I should think.
> >
> > -Garth
> >
> > Northern.CA ===--
> > http://www.northern.ca
> > Canada's Search Engine
> >



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