<div class="gmail_extra">Hello Matthew, Mr. Spier reports that he is using windows Vista. If the message-box code uses the message% class under the hood, then this is probably related to the bug I noted: problem report 12714 Thank you! -Patrick <div class="gmail_quote">On 25 April 2012 12:01, Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Strange. Works okay on my Mac. What platform? <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Harry Spier wrote: > That displays OK > > but: > #lang racket/gui > (message-box "goodbye Fred" "hello world") > > displays the message box title as "goodby..." because the message box > width is only wide enough to hold the message and the Racket logo > > Thanks, > Harry > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Matthias Felleisen > <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: >> >> Do you mean something like this: >> >>> #lang racket/gui >>> >>> (message-box "good bye" "hello world") >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Harry Spier wrote: >> >>> I've created a simple message-box. It expands in width to display the >>> message, but if the title is longer than the message, then the title >>> is cut-off. Is there any way to have the message-box expand enough to >>> display the title in that case. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Harry Spier >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> >> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>