Best way to determine user's screensize?
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 21:20:39 EDT 2020
On 2020-10-30, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
> So, assuming the user is invoking the application for the first time,
> how should an application determine how much of the screen it should
> use?
You arrange the widgets the way you want them using the user's
settings for the toolkit and let the sizers figure out the size.
> It has to make some choice, and any hard-coded value is almost
> certainly wrong.
Definitely, absolutely wrong.
> So why should an application not use the screen size as
> one factor?
Because it's got nothing to do with the appropriate window size for
the application?
Why should the application start out any larger just because the
screen is larger?
--
Grant
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