On 11/29/05, Damphyr <damphyr / freemail.gr> wrote:
> tony wrote:
> > Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> >
> >> With Gtk and Tk, you don't use coordinates.  You pack widgets into
> >> containers and pack those containers into windows.
> >>
> >> It's not terribly difficult, and it's a better approach than
> >> pixel-oriented coordinate systems.
> >
> >
> > Interesting point. I'll look into Tk.
> This is actually a point that is valid with almost all widget systems
> *except* the one  Microsoft uses.

I'm not familiar with Microsoft's way of laying out GUIs.  Do they use
pixel-based coordinate systems?

Is that why some dialogs and applications look weird if I use a bigger font?

How do they deal with internationalization of applications?