[plt-scheme] gui text field alignment and spacing under windows xp

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 22 18:57:14 EDT 2008

At Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:18:36 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:34:17 +0100, "Robert Matovinovic" wrote:
> > But
> > what I'm wondering about is the alignment of a text field for example. Label
> > text and text of the text field are not on the same base line.
> 
> This is a bug in MrEd for Windows. It's now fixed in SVN.
> 
> (The problem was confusion in an internal method about the font to use
> in measuring text. The text-field% class uses for aligning the
> label.)
> 
> > The space
> > between the label and the field is very narrow.
> 
> I think you're right. I'll look into adding some space.

I somehow ended up looking into this today (finally).

The repair reported above seems to have gotten lost, so I fixed it
again. And I finally adjusted the spacing between a text field and its
label.


Matthew



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