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Re: [TCLCORE] Crossplatform Tk differences
by Donal K. Fellows other posts by this author
Apr 29 2008 1:55AM messages near this date
Re: [TCLCORE] Crossplatform Tk differences | [TCLCORE] [SPAM] [6.0] Re: base64 in the core?
Michael Schlenker wrote:
>  Building apps that depend on the absolute pixel sizes is bad style,  
>  especially if you later need to add on i18n stuff. And Tk's grid  
>  manager makes it easy enough to get a decent resize behaviour.

You can also run into trouble with accessibility support. Some people
need to increase the size of all fonts on their systems so that they can
see them better. Requiring absolute sizes really serves them badly.

Donal.

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