417701 - Spinner buttons look taller than text boxes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 378157

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021501 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: 

The buttons in Windows are outside the text box, while in XUL, they are inside it, which make them look quite big. See screen shots for details.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrés Delfino]

Attachment: XUL spinner.

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

Attachment: Native Windows spinner.

Comment 3

[Andrés Delfino]

The native Windows spinner examples comes from Windows' Regional and Language Options (Control Panel).

Comment 4

[Brian Polidoro]

Attachment: screenshot of a native windows app

The spinner can be within the text field in native windows apps.

Comment 5

[Brian Polidoro]

Allowing the XUL spinner to shorter would be better though.  

Comment 6

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=303563) [details]
> screenshot of a native windows app
> 
> The spinner can be within the text field in native windows apps.
> 

Please note that a program that runs on Windows does not have to use widgets provided by Windows, I seriously doubt that's the case.

Comment 7

[Brian Polidoro]

I'm one of the programmers for that program in the screenshot.  So I know it's using Window's native controls.

Comment 8

[Brian Polidoro]

"To the user, an up-down control and its buddy window often look like a single control."

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb759889(VS.85).aspx

Comment 9

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I'm one of the programmers for that program in the screenshot.  So I know it's
> using Window's native controls.
> 

Yes, sorry, CONTAM does use native controls :P

Then, the change would involve making the spinner buttons have the same height as a textbox.

Comment 10

[Brian Polidoro]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > I'm one of the programmers for that program in the screenshot.  So I know it's
> > using Window's native controls.
> > 
> 
> Yes, sorry, CONTAM does use native controls :P

That's interesting.  How did you figure out it was CONTAM?
> 
> Then, the change would involve making the spinner buttons have the same height
> as a textbox.
> 
That's what meant with comment #5 but I missed a word.  Allowing the spinner buttons to be shorter than they are now would be a visual improvement by looking more native.  Although it might be that XUL can do it but the dialog in question just needs to be tweaked.  I haven't worked with XUL.  

Comment 11

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #10)
> That's interesting.  How did you figure out it was CONTAM?

Google: "brian polidoro" "transient results"

Comment 12

[Andrés Delfino]

Can someone please confirm this?

Comment 13

[Ben Basson]

Confirming, however it looks like a theme bug to me. 

Comment 14

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Only if you mean a toolkit/themes/ bug, which I'd rather not see live in Firefox.