Comments on: Pushing Pixels http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/ work. life. open source. diatribes. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric Jain http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Eric Jain Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:05 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-1174 Shouldn't this be: section2.descriptionVerticalSpacing += section1.getTextClientHeightDifference(); ? Shouldn’t this be:

section2.descriptionVerticalSpacing += section1.getTextClientHeightDifference();

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]]> By: Eric Jain http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-2631 Eric Jain Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-2631 Shouldn't this be: section2.descriptionVerticalSpacing += section1.getTextClientHeightDifference(); ? Shouldn’t this be:

section2.descriptionVerticalSpacing += section1.getTextClientHeightDifference();

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]]> By: Simon Archer http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Simon Archer Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:07:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-531 Here's a lesson I learned about pushing pixels... when using SWT's GridLayout class you'll lose 5 pixels of width on both sides unless you explicitly set marginWidth to zero. Sometimes you need to set marginHeight to zero too. As a general rule, Eclipse UI elements should not waste margin in this way, but you see it quite a bit in third party plug-ins, especially on preference pages and dialogs. Here’s a lesson I learned about pushing pixels… when using SWT’s GridLayout class you’ll lose 5 pixels of width on both sides unless you explicitly set marginWidth to zero. Sometimes you need to set marginHeight to zero too. As a general rule, Eclipse UI elements should not waste margin in this way, but you see it quite a bit in third party plug-ins, especially on preference pages and dialogs.

]]> By: Simon Archer http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-2630 Simon Archer Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:07:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-2630 Here's a lesson I learned about pushing pixels... when using SWT's GridLayout class you'll lose 5 pixels of width on both sides unless you explicitly set marginWidth to zero. Sometimes you need to set marginHeight to zero too. As a general rule, Eclipse UI elements should not waste margin in this way, but you see it quite a bit in third party plug-ins, especially on preference pages and dialogs. Here’s a lesson I learned about pushing pixels… when using SWT’s GridLayout class you’ll lose 5 pixels of width on both sides unless you explicitly set marginWidth to zero. Sometimes you need to set marginHeight to zero too. As a general rule, Eclipse UI elements should not waste margin in this way, but you see it quite a bit in third party plug-ins, especially on preference pages and dialogs.

]]> By: Scott Rosenbaum http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-530 Scott Rosenbaum Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:50:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-530 One of the lessons I learned developing reports a long time ago is that pushing pixels is important. It is hard to ignore your inner geek who screams out, close enough a couple of pixels here or there don't matter.<br/><br/>Your inner geek is right, it doesn't matter at a completely rational level. Unfortunately, missing a couple of pixels here or there send a very powerful sub conscious message. <br/> "un-professional"<br/> "not finished"<br/> "needs more work"<br/> "don't trust"<br/><br/>Unfortunately, it seems like those people at the top of the org chart are much more tuned into these signals then the people doing or testing the work. <br/><br/>Makes me want to start spouting all sorts of cliches about details, but I won't. One of the lessons I learned developing reports a long time ago is that pushing pixels is important. It is hard to ignore your inner geek who screams out, close enough a couple of pixels here or there don’t matter.

Your inner geek is right, it doesn’t matter at a completely rational level. Unfortunately, missing a couple of pixels here or there send a very powerful sub conscious message.
“un-professional”
“not finished”
“needs more work”
“don’t trust”

Unfortunately, it seems like those people at the top of the org chart are much more tuned into these signals then the people doing or testing the work.

Makes me want to start spouting all sorts of cliches about details, but I won’t.

]]> By: Scott Rosenbaum http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-2629 Scott Rosenbaum Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:50:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-2629 One of the lessons I learned developing reports a long time ago is that pushing pixels is important. It is hard to ignore your inner geek who screams out, close enough a couple of pixels here or there don't matter.Your inner geek is right, it doesn't matter at a completely rational level. Unfortunately, missing a couple of pixels here or there send a very powerful sub conscious message. "un-professional" "not finished" "needs more work" "don't trust"Unfortunately, it seems like those people at the top of the org chart are much more tuned into these signals then the people doing or testing the work. Makes me want to start spouting all sorts of cliches about details, but I won't. One of the lessons I learned developing reports a long time ago is that pushing pixels is important. It is hard to ignore your inner geek who screams out, close enough a couple of pixels here or there don’t matter.Your inner geek is right, it doesn’t matter at a completely rational level. Unfortunately, missing a couple of pixels here or there send a very powerful sub conscious message. “un-professional” “not finished” “needs more work” “don’t trust”Unfortunately, it seems like those people at the top of the org chart are much more tuned into these signals then the people doing or testing the work. Makes me want to start spouting all sorts of cliches about details, but I won’t.

]]> By: Chris Aniszczyk (zx) http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-529 Chris Aniszczyk (zx) Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:15:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-529 Well that's not fair dserodio. I think Eclipse looks pretty good on Linux. If Linux distros didn't insist on shipping such horrible fonts and display settings by default, Eclipse would look better. Here's an <a HREF="http://blog.xam.dk/archives/81-Making-Eclipse-look-good-on-Linux.html" REL="nofollow">example</a> of a user making it look better on Linux by changing some settings.<br/><br/>If there are any problems with SWT, you should file a bug report against SWT so they can address it. That's the beauty of open-source. Well that’s not fair dserodio. I think Eclipse looks pretty good on Linux. If Linux distros didn’t insist on shipping such horrible fonts and display settings by default, Eclipse would look better. Here’s an example of a user making it look better on Linux by changing some settings.

If there are any problems with SWT, you should file a bug report against SWT so they can address it. That’s the beauty of open-source.

]]> By: Chris Aniszczyk (zx) http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-2628 Chris Aniszczyk (zx) Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:15:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-2628 Well that's not fair dserodio. I think Eclipse looks pretty good on Linux. If Linux distros didn't insist on shipping such horrible fonts and display settings by default, Eclipse would look better. Here's an <a href="http://blog.xam.dk/archives/81-Making-Eclipse-look-good-on-Linux.html" rel="nofollow">example</a> of a user making it look better on Linux by changing some settings.If there are any problems with SWT, you should file a bug report against SWT so they can address it. That's the beauty of open-source. Well that’s not fair dserodio. I think Eclipse looks pretty good on Linux. If Linux distros didn’t insist on shipping such horrible fonts and display settings by default, Eclipse would look better. Here’s an example of a user making it look better on Linux by changing some settings.If there are any problems with SWT, you should file a bug report against SWT so they can address it. That’s the beauty of open-source.

]]> By: dserodio http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-528 dserodio Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:24:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-528 I wish we had "pixel pushers" making Eclipse look as good on Linux as it does on Windows. I wish we had “pixel pushers” making Eclipse look as good on Linux as it does on Windows.

]]> By: dserodio http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/comment-page-1/#comment-2627 dserodio Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:24:00 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/2007/11/12/pushing-pixels/#comment-2627 I wish we had "pixel pushers" making Eclipse look as good on Linux as it does on Windows. I wish we had “pixel pushers” making Eclipse look as good on Linux as it does on Windows.

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