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Can we stop the folder pages jumping about?

Status: New Idea
by on 02-02-2012 07:32 PM

There are two things which are irritating about viewing Folders at stages.

 

1. The window keeps jumping back to centre screen every time you click on a new tab.

 

This is just not required. I know of no other user interface that does this. Surely if I move the window somewhere else, so that I can view two folders at once, or another application, I would not want the window to jump back to centre screen every time I selected another tab?

 

I believe this may just be a bit of lazy programming that does this in form load, when it should do it only on the window load.

 

2. The window keeps resizing to the current form.

 

This is less irritating, but far more commonly noticed. The window jiggles about as it re-sizes. Factor in some speed issues when it renders complex form slowly, and the result is not good looking. We have to keep all forms in a process exactly the same size merely in order to minimise this issue, yet even so the window still jiggles about!

 

My take on this is, if the window is large enough to fit the current form, leave it alone. If it is not, then by all means re-size it to fit. That would be a fairly simple piece of code to manage, I would have thought. Probably four lines of code in all.

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