Re: [XBoard-devel] new developer release

[h . g . muller]

I think I found a better way to solve the button-height problem, that
should be safe: I found a routine that can request the nominal dimensions
of a fontSet. And I now use that info to trim the size of the buttons,
rather than adapting the text-widget height to the buttons. This should
avoid problems with vertical alignment of the text in the text-edits, and
it makes the buttons transform to a reasonable size.

Only the spacing in the pull-down menus looks unnaturally large now. But
the menu items seem to resist vertical sizing, so I guess we have to live
with that.

My exploring also dug up a way to control distance of widgets to their
reference neighbor. I use that now to position the checkboxes, and make
the spin-control buttons touch each other.

This whole operation all in all results in a much nicer layout of the
dialogs (in so far they are generated by GenericPopUp). And it is much
more robust against font-size changes too, as I derive heights and
distances from the fontSet parameters.

I pushed the patch to Savannah master. everything there can go into 4.6.0.