savIRC

A few posts ago, I blogged about how I was working on a new Settings window and had committed it to our svn repository. Well, phobie tried it out and reported back that it looked like crap on his machine. Of which I requested some screenshots. And indeed he was right. What was the fatal flaw? Well, there were a few issues.

1. I try to stay away from hard-coding sizes, but for a few entry/listbox widgets, I put in a certain size.

2. I didn't make the widgets expand to use up all available space left over.

3. I hardcoded the size of the dialog. I did this mainly so you don't have the window changing size on you. Very irritating, and you never see that in quality software.

So, I made the appropriate changes. And decided to hardcode the dialog window, but if a user resizes it. savIRC will remember that setting. So, you'll only have to resize it once, if you need to do so to begin with. Currently this only works if you don't close savIRC. But don't worry, we'll save it in the configuration file eventually (soon).

This was the big hurdle that I was trying to solve, before attaching variables to all the choices that we have, and writing it out to a configuration file. But, there is one more thing that must be completed first, before continuing on. And that is, last minute arrangements of some of the features. I didn't receive ANY FEEDBACK, on the mockups. So a stupid mistake was never fixed, until now.