please test new setup
Gary R. Van Sickle
g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net
Mon May 9 19:08:00 GMT 2005
Only UI problem I saw was on the "Choose a download site" page: "Add" button
overlaps the adjacent edit control. I think that's due to the theme and/or
the button was too close before anyway.
Oh, found another bullet item for you:
- Get rid of the "Installation complete" dialog box.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:53 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: please test new setup
>
>
> http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.497-alpha.exe
>
> I've committed support for tooltips in setup. I would
> appreciate any feedback on the wording of the text, the
> implementation, or reports of it not working with older
> versions of windows.
>
> For most things I use multiline tooltips. According to MSDN,
> this requires the common controls v4.70 or greater. This was
> first included with MS IE v3, so the only people that this
> would affect would be those people running windows 95 with IE
> 2.x. I can't possibly imagine that there are many people in
> that situation. Regardless, they should degrade gracefully
> (as in they just won't display) if that is the case.
> And the single-line tooltips would still work for them regardless.
>
> Currently, I have added multiline tooltips for the Keep,
> Prev, Curr, and Exp radio buttons as well as the View button
> on the package chooser screen. The text explains what the
> buttons do, more or less. The clickable hyperlinks also get
> single line tooltips that show their url.
>
> Here is an example: http://dessent.net/cygwin/setup-dialogs4.png
>
> Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features:
> works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc.
>
> http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.497-alpha.exe
>
> Brian
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