Bug 36145 - Help toolbars not high enough when large fonts.
Summary: Help toolbars not high enough when large fonts.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.1.1   Edit
Assignee: Konrad Kolosowski CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2003-04-07 11:43 EDT by Konrad Kolosowski CLA
Modified: 2003-04-09 12:24 EDT (History)
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Description Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2003-04-07 11:43:32 EDT 
The frames used to display help toolbars have fixed hight.  When system fonts 
are large, text in the toolbars do not fit withing the toolbar frames.
Comment 1 Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2003-04-07 11:50:33 EDT 
The difficulty is in the fact that fonts are specified using names (for 
example "icon") and it is not known what height the font is.  HTML, Javascript, 
or InternetExplorer do not have APIs to find out what the height of the font is.

It is possible however to find a height of a portion of HTML after the help 
frames have been rendered.  Knowing the text height it is possible to modify 
frameset element in the DOM to increase the frame sizes.  This works in 
Internet Explorer and Mozilla 1.2.1 or greater.

This approach can be used, to develop a solution for the problem and release 
for Eclipse 2.1.1.
Comment 2 Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2003-04-08 17:01:43 EDT 
Fix released in HEAD.
Comment 3 Konrad Kolosowski CLA 2003-04-09 12:24:22 EDT 
Created maintenace branch for 2.1.1 and relesed the fix into it.