[racket-dev] racket/gui checkbox clips text

Thanks for the report! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to replicate
the problem on either Windows 7 machine that I tried.

Is there possibly some other configuration that's needed to provoke the
error, such as a font change?

At Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:56:02 +0000 (GMT), Richard Hopkins wrote:
> Using the DrRacket nightly build for 2013-12-09, checkboxes in the Preferences 
> dialog have the text clipped.
> 
> It appears as though there isn't enough space to fit the text on 1 line, so it 
> renders 2 lines. However, the top of the 1st
> line and bottom of the 2nd line is rendered outside the client area for the 
> checkbox. This issue is not specific to DrRacket
> and can be reproduced using
> 
> #lang racket/gui
> (define frame (new frame% [label "Example"]))
> 
> (define check-box (new check-box%
>                        (parent frame)
>                        (label "A check box with a really long label to see if 
> it still works and does not truncate any text.")
>                        (value #t)))
> 
> (send frame show #t)
> 
> I think all of the following must be true to reproduce the issue:
> 
> * racket/gui later than 5.3.6;
> * run on Windows; and
> 
> * have DPI set larger than the Windows default.
> 
> Regarding the DPI issue, this can be changed via the 'Personalize' menu item 
> from the Desktop and selecting the "Make text appear larger (125%)" item for 
> example.
> A log off and on is required for the change to apply.
> 
> Broken example:
> 2013-12-09 nightly on Windows 7 with text set to 125%.
> 
> Working examples:
> 5.3.6 on Windows 7 with text set to 125%.
> 2013-12-09 nightly on Windows 8 with text set to 100%
> 5.3.6 on Linux with GTK and default DPI
> 2013-12-09 nightly on Linux with GTK and default DPI
> 
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