An oversight that needs attention, please

M9. monkey9 at iae.nl
Wed Feb 28 02:23:08 PST 2007


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Basil Chupin schreef:
> It appears that smart has been written with a normal 4:3 monitor screen
> in mind and a widescreen monitor, with a 16:10 ratio, is not catered for.
> 
> I have a widescreen monitor and an upgrade by smart could not complete
> because files were not available at one of the channels. When this
> occurred, smart put to screen the usual error message - which took up
> the height of the full screen, but because of my widescreen monitor the
> bottom of the error message was invisible (below the bottom of the
> screen) and there was no way to click on the "OK" to close the message.
> The only recourse I could see was to go the quick CTRL-ALT-ESC route and
> kill smart and so get rid of the error message.
> 
> I know that it would probably be a PITA to do this, but couldn't a
> scrollbar be added for those occasions when the error message exceeds
> the height of the display screen?
> 
> Unless, of course, there is already a way to overcome this obstacle
> which I am not aware of in which case I would be grateful if someone
> would tell me what it is.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
what about holding down left-alt, while pushing down left mouse-button?
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