User's Guide
The size and position of parts can be adjusted when the font size changes
and when the size of the parent window changes. There are three kinds
of adjustments that can be made when dealing with size and position.
- Some parts need to scale only when the font size changes. Examples
are labels, push buttons, radio button sets, and toggle buttons. These
parts need to scale horizontally and vertically so that all of the text for a
particular font and size will display correctly. These parts typically
do not need to scale proportionally with the entire window (although they
can).
- Other parts, including entry fields and drop-down lists, need to scale
with font size and can also scale horizontally with the entire window so that
they display as much text as possible.
- Finally, parts such as lists, multiline edit views, notebooks, and
containers can scale both horizontally and vertically as the window size
changes, so as much text or as many items as possible are displayed.
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