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Expand meaning of the non-resizable windows.
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Non-resizable dialog boxes.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The window manager monoculture means that accessibility improvements
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The single Windows UI library
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means that accessibility improvements
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and user interface customization can be difficult to implement.
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For example, Windows presents many configuration options in non-resizable dialog boxes.
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For example, many dialog boxes are non-resizable by default,
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i.e. ``WS_THICKFRAME`` must be enabled by the application.
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In some cases, you want to display something in a response window but you also
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want this window to be resizable in order to let the user resize this window to
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display the info the way he or she wants. Normally, response windows are not
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resizable and this is also the Microsoft standard behaviour.
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--- Eric Aling
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http://eric.aling.tripod.com/PB/tips/pbtip39.htm
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This can pose user-interface problems,
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especially on high-resolution monitors. [#changing_size_of_window]_ [#cannot_resize_small_windows]_
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especially on high-resolution monitors.
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[#changing_size_of_window]_
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[#cannot_resize_small_windows]_
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One solution to this problem is to download and run a third-party background process
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that tracks every single time a window is resized. [#resize_non_resizable_windows]_ [#turn_non_resizable_windows]_ [#ResizeEnable]_
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that tracks every single time a window is resized.
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[#resize_non_resizable_windows]_
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[#turn_non_resizable_windows]_
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[#ResizeEnable]_
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The README is not directly linkable via URL,
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so here are some of the salient parts::
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