[racket] message-box too small to display title

From: Patrick Mahoney (paddy.mahoney at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 12:21:01 EDT 2012

http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?debug=&database=default&cmd=view+audit-trail&cmd=view&pr=12714+

*this may be related*

-Patrick

On 25 April 2012 12:15, Patrick Mahoney <paddy.mahoney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> On 25 April 2012 12:01, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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