10-17-2003, 05:51 AM -
Quote:There is a possibility to change width of the command line. If there will be a possibility to change height - it can solve the problem I think...Unfortunately no, there's not. When the taskbar is vertical, changing the width of the command line changes the height, when in this case, you actually want to make it wider. Theoretically, if you could change the height as well, I agree that would solve the problem, but I don't see any way to do that, either with the properties dialog, the skin.ini, or the skin's background.png file.
Yuri, I think this brings up 4 suggestions. 1: Allow the user to change the height of the plugin. 2: The skin's background.png file and text direction should be rotated 90 degress when the taskbar is vertical, by default. This should be 90 degrees left (text direction bottom to top) for left-docked taskbars, or 90 degrees right (top to bottom text) for right-docked bars. 3: Add 3 radio buttons to the properties dialog box - left, top/bottom, and right - to allow the user to override the default orientation. Note that changing the orientation would also change the meanings for "width" and "height" in relation to the plugin. 4: Change the preview to show the current orientation. Along the bottom for horizontal or along the left or right side as appropriate. Also include some sample text so the user can see text direction.