Disabling JavaFX minimise/maximise/etc buttons

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:59:07 +0200, Artem Ananiev  
<artem.ananiev at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> On 7/24/2013 12:45 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:34:48 +0200, Anthony Petrov
>> <anthony.petrov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't agree. IMO, it's annoying when I'm able to resize a window
>>> freely but unable to maximize it. This just doesn't look logical or
>>> convenient.
>>
>> I'm with Werner here. Maximixing a dialog is usually ugly from the
>> aesthetic point of view, but sometimes I'm annoyed by dialogs that are
>> just a bit too narrow for entering a text, or something else
>> (incidentally, e.g. the Java control panel seems to be filled with
>> non-resizable windows designed just to annoy people :-). I'd just like
>> to stretch them a bit.
>
> Could you identify the boundary between just making a window larger and  
> maximizing it? I can't. What about Windows 7 "snap" feature, is it  
> resizing or maximizing? In other words, my understanding is that if a  
> window is resizable, it should be maximizable as well. However, as I  
> wrote in my previous emails, sometimes it's out of Java control: we can  
> say if a window should be resizable or not, and the platform decides if  
> it is minimizable/maximizable or not.
>
> Thanks,

The boundary is when you feel the look is ugly, thus it's related to the %  
of size increase. That's why "snap" is not a problem. Of course I can't  
tell you a precise threshold, it depends. But it's ok when I just enlarge  
a window because it lacks the room for say 5-10 characters of input, while  
I don't like to see a maximized window where there's just a small content  
and large amounts of empty space.

Also: sometimes you want a modal, that is the main window is blocked, but  
perhaps you need to read something in the main window, that would help to  
answer to the question of the modal. If the modal is just resizable (and  
draggable) there's no problem. If the modal has been maximized, you can't.  
Of course, it's up to the user to avoid maximizing it if it's a problem -  
there are no showstoppers here. But UI design is all about driving the  
user in the right direction and minimizing the number of interaction items  
needed to accomplish a task.

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