Dialog widget fixed width seems problematic

[deepfire]

That the dialog widget is parametrised with a fixed width makes it very hard to use in a way, that would preclude crashes on terminal resize.

Most other widgets are resize-agnostic, yet the dialog isn't.

[jtdaugherty]

Can you elaborate on what is made more difficult for you by this API?

The reason that the dialog takes a width is because it needs the width to determine how much padding to add to center the dialog. An alternative design would be to remove the width parameter and the automatic dialog centering. The reason I didn't go with that approach is that I assumed that anyone using the dialog API would never find that a useful outcome and would prefer the dialog centered. However, I can also see a non-centered dialog useful as an independent layer along with a translation.

Thanks!

[deepfire]

How does one make a dialog that doesn't crash, when the terminal window is too small?

Alternatively, how does one make a dialog that takes 100% of screen width?

[jtdaugherty]

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "crash"?

As for the width, as I described above, the automatic centering would need to be removed.

[deepfire]

Basically, I get program exit with:

corr: row 1 now exceeds region width

..where the render code is like this..

..whoops, the recent modifications I've made, which the git history doesn't have, and which I'm not sure how to undo, apparently fix this.

Hmm. I'm not sure how to proceed with this anymore..

[jtdaugherty]

Okay. If you encounter the problem again, see if you can provide me with a minimal test program. I'd be happy to try to run it and debug it for myself. I'll close this in the mean time; feel free to re-open it if this comes up again!