Design of dialogs should follow these rules as much as possible
As a reference, this was the older style guide:
From: Andreas Pflug [Andreas.Pflug@web.de] Sent: 02 May 2003 16:47 To: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] pgadmin3 property pages design rules As a proposal, this are the sizes and positions I used so far in dlgUser and dlgDatabase: - first control at (10, 10) - Standard controls are at (100, y) size (200, 20) - vertical control spacing 25, for radio buttons and checkboxes 20 - static text has a vertical offset of 3 relative to other controls - standard Button size is (75, 25) - controls including statics will need up to 50 % more room for under GTK2 if wxWidgets 2.4 is used; 2.5 is recommended. - statics should be designed with 50 % space in reserve, to leave enough space for translated strings. For dialogs derived from dlgSecurityProperty, the Security page will be created dynamically. All dialogs will inherit the SQL page from dlgProperty. Regards, Andreas