[Mono-bugs] [Bug 77456][Maj] Changed - Forms layouts are messed up differently now

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Changed by peter at novonyx.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77456

--- shadow/77456	2006-02-27 19:22:36.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/77456.tmp.28605	2006-03-09 05:25:22.000000000 -0500
@@ -105,6 +105,30 @@
 see them.
 6. Two GroupBoxes in the upper right hand corner of the form are 
 being drawn in the wrong place.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From peter at novonyx.com  2006-02-27 19:22 -------
 Am working on layout now.
+
+------- Additional Comments From peter at novonyx.com  2006-03-09 05:25 -------
+This one required some thinking and sitting on. The results of that 
+are now in svn, and make the testapp *layout* the same as with 
+MS.Net. It wasn't so much the layoutcode as the fact that textboxes 
+were creating their handles prematurely which caused some other code 
+afterwards to execute differently and thereby affect layout.
+
+MS most likely has different logic for their layout and therefore 
+doesn't run into that issue, even if they were to create the handle 
+earlier (which they're not).
+
+Now, there are still two issues with the testapp:
+1) When run on Linux, because font sizes are different, it looks like 
+crap and cut off, with the window being too small. The way MS does 
+the fontscaling doesn't help much there, seems to actually hurt it. 
+(See this article: 
+http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2004/01/25/62621.aspx )
+
+2) Your Testapp is designed for two rows of tabs, we end up with 
+three. I'm assigning the bug to Jackson now so he can look into that 
+(Jackson owns TabControl).
+
+Thanks for you patience...