[maemo-developers] Fremantle dialogs at maximum size

[From: Claudio Saavedra]

El jue, 16-04-2009 a las 18:11 +0200, Till Harbaum / Lists escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag 16 April 2009 schrieb Kimmo Hämäläinen:
> > Yeah, if you are not fullscreen, you will be limited in height (I'm not
> > sure if this is in alpha version, though) so that the user can still
> > close the dialog by tapping outside.
> The problem is that in non-fullscreen mode i am not limited and
> the dialog is bigger than the usable screen space. Do i really have 
> to hardcode those limits into my program? Why doesn't maemo just 
> limit the size to a reasonable value instead of creating overlapping 
> things?
> 
> Also you want me to call gtk_window_fullscreen() on dialogs even if
> the main window is already fullscreen when creating that dialog? 
> 
> In order to do so i'd have to exactly know how big a dialog can be at
> most. That imho doesn't make much sense. Once should be able to
> request any size and having hildon take care that nothing is bigger
> than useful.

As Kimmo already said, this is already fixed and dialogs won't occupy
more than the screen height minus a certain delta. It's probably not in
the latest SDK release, but it will be in the next one.

Claudio