custom dialog button sizes

[VICH]

how can you increase the siz of the buttons in custom dialog boxes....the text i am putting in the button is only two words..but they don't fit..

help please

[stanley]

VICH:

The dialogue buttons are a fixed size, so the text must fit into them. You should make the dialogue text clearer, so that the language used in the buttons is as simple as possible. I realize you're on Windows, but Apple's Human Interface Guidelines are really very good. This is the section on dialog boxes:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html

-Stanley

[stanley]

That last link was for the Human Interface Guidelines as a whole. The section on dialog boxes is here:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_6.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-BACFBACB

-Stanley

[T-Square]

Another approach (which is also web compatible, if you ever intend to traipse down that path) is to build your dialog as a layout. It requires you to split your script up into "pre-dialog" and "post-dialog", but it does work and gives you a lot of flexibility.

David