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Bug 317353

Summary: Area covered by the Properties pages is too huge
Product: [Tools] CDT Reporter: Sebastian Bauer <mail>
Component: cdt-coreAssignee: Project Inbox <cdt-core-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Jonah Graham <jonah>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse.sprigogin, elaskavaia.cdt, Jesse.Weinstein
Version: 7.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Example layout with scroller
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Screenshot Before change
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Screenshot After change none

Description Sebastian Bauer CLA 2010-06-19 06:42:51 EDT 
I think that the minimal area covered by the properties is way too huge.

On my Windows system, the properties window of a resource has to be at least 1000 pixel in wide in order to make the scroller disapear, although there is no apparent reason presenting the scroller at all, i.e., also some of the other widgets could be shrinked in the layout. This concerns only the property pages that are added by CDT.
Comment 1 Elena Laskavaia CLA 2010-06-19 09:55:26 EDT 
What specific property page you talking about? They have different layout.
Comment 2 Sebastian Bauer CLA 2010-06-19 11:23:55 EDT 
Created attachment 172271 [details]
Example layout with scroller
Comment 3 Sebastian Bauer CLA 2010-06-19 11:26:56 EDT 
It affects nearly all pages of CDT. See the example screenshot. What I mean is that there is a horizontal scroller displayed (see bottom of the screenshot), in order to be able to scroll the virtual composite, although the width of the inner layout could be reduced as well.
Comment 4 Sebastian Bauer CLA 2013-03-19 07:52:00 EDT 
See https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/11299/ for a possible fix
Comment 5 Sergey Prigogin CLA 2013-03-19 13:23:02 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
I don't quite understand what problem you are trying to solve. Please provide screenshots of the same page(s) before and after the change.
Comment 6 Jesse Weinstein CLA 2013-03-19 14:40:26 EDT 
Created attachment 228674 [details]
Screenshot Before change

This is the Property Page Settings preference pane currently. Note that it has scrollbars, and extends all the way to the end of the text line below it ("//selection event on not-initialized tab items").
Comment 7 Jesse Weinstein CLA 2013-03-19 14:43:03 EDT 
Created attachment 228675 [details]
Screenshot After change

This is the same preference pane, after the change. Note that it has no scrollbars (and everything in it is visible), even though it only extends up to "//selection event on" in the text below it. 

That's the sort of fix that this bug is intended to address, as I understand it.  Sebastian, please correct me if I didn't get it right.
Comment 8 Sebastian Bauer CLA 2013-03-19 16:48:00 EDT 
Yes, something like this. Thanks, very nice service ;)

I did not check the prefs but the project properties, where it happens nearly everywhere. It may apply to the prefs pages as well and the patch may not fix all the oddities, but it reduced it somewhat.