An oversight that needs attention, please

Basil Chupin blchupin at tpg.com.au
Sun Mar 4 21:08:10 PST 2007


M9. wrote:
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>> M9. wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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.
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>>> what about holding down left-alt, while pushing down left mouse-button?
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>> Thank you - the next time I get the very large list of uncompleted
>> downloads I'll try this finger-exercise.
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>> Cheers.
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> Lol, sure you can take the *** message and drag it up to get to some
> button....
Well it sure works as you described. Got through ~5 pages of the error 
message using this method to get to the OK button. One learns something 
new everyday.

Cheers.




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