[racket] message-box too small to display title

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 25 12:01:40 EDT 2012

Strange. Works okay on my Mac. What platform? 


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
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> 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
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>> 


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