Re: [RP] Placing and sizing of dialog boxes

[Shawn Betts]

Eduard Werner <address@hidden> writes:

> From: Eduard Werner <address@hidden>
> Subject: [RP] Placing and sizing of dialog boxes
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:11:37 +0100 (CET)
> 
> > I have encountered  a problem with Colin Adams's Chu Shogi program
> > (www.colina.demon.uk) which is written in Java. When I open a dialog
> > box (e.g. to save a game) this dialog box gets so big that it becomes
> > useless (all the interesting parts of it are off the screen).
> > Any suggestions? I know a bit how to program but I've never done any 
> > X11 programming.
> 
> I guess Chu is not really opening a dialog box but a new window which
> gets maximized but still drawn at an offset which makes parts of it
> disappear. BTW, what happens if a program tries to open a second window?
> With emacs (I'm using 21.1.) this is not possible: I can do C-x 5 2
> but when I then try C-x 5 0 it says "attempt to delete minibuffer or
> sole ordinary window". There seems to be something missing here (or it's
> simply me missing sth :-(
> 
> Any help appreciated

This doesn't sound good. Where can I get this program? I think it
would be easiest if I tried it myself.