35675 - [wizard] some text not visible

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Localization, defect, P3)

Description

[Allan Masri]

with beta1, WinNT:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Set default font-size to 6mm in global.css
2. Launch Messenger.
3. Select "Mail/News Account..." from Edit Menu.
4. Select "New Account" button.

Result:
Notice that the lower part of the text in the Account Wizard is hidden. This is 
a localization issue because other languages may have longer words or taller 
characters than English, and therefore will not fit into the allotted space.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

lower part of what text? I don't know what this is referring to

Comment 2

[Allan Masri]

To be more specific: When the size of the font is changed, the text in the body 
of the dialog becomes too large to be contained in the text field and flows 
downward past the edge of the viewable space. In the second panel, this results 
in the user being unable to continue, since one of the enterable fields is 
hidden.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

I'll try sizing this window by em's instead of  pixels. not sure if it will 
work.

Comment 4

[Michael La Guardia]

Marking nsbeta2+ per PDT

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

using ems seems to be unpredictable. I made the window resizable, that will have 
to do until after beta2

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I don't quite understand this bug. Ae we going to ask every non-resizable window to be
re-sizable? The default font-size of 6mm is too big for almost any UI possibilties. For example
at 6mm, I can't see all the the bottom task bar entries in the Browser window even if I stretch
the Browser window across the width of my 17 inch monitor.

How about the Account wizard window itself, which does not re-size at PR1 and would
be OK at 4mm but not at 6mm or a borderline at 5mm?

Have other bugs been filed on other non-resizble windows? And what are the limits of the largest font size 
we would want to accommodate?

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** checked with 5/26/2000 Win build **

In the above build, the Account Settings window is now resizable.
But the original bug was about the Account Wizard window, which is 
still not resizable. 
I'm inclined to reopen this bug but I believe we should look at L10n requirements
carefully for the overall UI font size. As I mentioned above "6mm" is not a practical 
size for Japanese. It is way too big and we will lose part of Navigator window UI. on a 17inch monitor.
I would think that 4mm is a possibility for  hose who want a bigger size. In that case, the Account
Wizard window looks OK without resizing.

If it easy to make the Account Wizard window resiazble, please do so and fix the original 
problem.

By the way, the font setting has been moved from global.css to intl.css and resides under
the chrome:locale directory now. 

Comment 8

[Allan Masri]

The problem is that some languages have considerably longer or more roundabout 
ways of expressing ideas than does English. If a particular translation is 40% 
longer than its English equivalent--reasonable for French or German--then it is 
already longer than a 4mm font (L@4mm = 133% * L@3mm, where L is the length of 
the text in question, assuming the width is proportional to the height). If the 
user chooses a larger font size of 4mm, and the text is 40% longer, then we 
have: 133%*L@3mm + 40%*L@4mm = 186%*L@3mm. If the default font size is 3mm, then 
the hypothetical font size would be 5.586 mm. Although the height of a 6mm font 
is not reasonable, the length is possible, or even likely.

Comment 9

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

So this bug has not much to do with the font size but rather that
we want the (New) Account Wizard window to be resizable or
flexible to accommodate possible text expansion in other languages.

(Note: We would have problems containing text lengths in various parts of
the products if the font size is much more than 4mm even in English text.)

I guess we need to keep this bug still nsbeta2+.

Comment 10

[Alec Flett]

I understand the issues, but I need you guys to understand that IFRAMEs are not
intrinsically resizable, so its basically impossible to have a intrinsically
sized dialog that uses IFRAMES, like the account wizard and the prefs window.

Comment 11

[Alec Flett]

so it turns out that the wizard is in fact resizable on Windows and Linux, and 
has been since 5/24.
Note that NO modal dialogs are resizable on the mac, this is a general problem 
with those dialogs.

Since the window is resizable, I'm marking this FIXED, as it was before when I 
marked it on 5/24

Comment 12

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Attachment: Image of the non-resizable window we are taling about.

Comment 13

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Alec, I'm still not able to ree-size the window whose image 
I attached above. This is with 6/5/2000 Win32 build.
Are we talking about the same thing?

Comment 14

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I'm going to re-open the bug because the window we refer to
is not re-sizable. But with this one twist. I would like to ask
amasri who originally filed this bug to see if the current
non-resizable window caused a problem in German PR1 which is 
available. If it did not, we might want to take this off
the nsbeta2+ list. Opinions welcome.

Comment 15

[Alec Flett]

it IS resizable! try it yourself.

Comment 16

[Alec Flett]

by the way - just because it doesn't have fancy borders doesn't mean it's not
resizable... actually move your mouse cursor over the edge and you'll see.

Comment 17

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Alec, I tried with Linux and it does re-size there.
But not on Windows. Would you try Windows and see if
we can agree on that part?

Comment 18

[Alec Flett]

yes! I swear it resizes on my machine on Windows.
Can you try the preferences window and account settings window too? They have 
EXACTLY the same window parameters (i.e. "resize=yes" or something like that) so 
they should be resizable in the same way.

I'm on Windows 2000 - what Windows are you on? maybe it's a Win98 or 
WinNT-specific problem

Comment 19

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I use Win98 and WinNT4 normally and this problem is
observable on both.
The preferences window and account settings window DO resize
on NT4. But not the Account wizard window.

Comment 20

[Alec Flett]

Oh my goodness. I just figured out what's going on. As it turns out, the dialog 
is resizable when opened from File->New->Account, but not when opened from from 
the account manager.

I have a fix that I'll check in when the tree opens. sorry for the confusion.

Comment 21

[Alec Flett]

ok, fix is in. Now all places that use the account wizard bring it up with the
same routine...so that it's resizable everywhere

Comment 22

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Checked with 6/27/2000 Win32 build **

Yes. The new account wizard window now is re-sizable whether
you open it via File | New | Account ... or through Edit | Mail &
News Account settings menu and then the button, "New Account".