On top of all of that, this is yet another (of about three instances I have found so far), where it's clear that Vista is not "all new code" as MS likes to maintain it is. It seems like this bug occurred because the same old *.ani code from the previous versions of MS Windows was included in Vista with literally no oversight and no checking.
Well, considering the mount of dialog boxes kept unchanged from XP and all, it seems pretty obvious that Vista is not "all new code". And what would be the point, as long as core component are rewritten, why would they redo the whole gui code?
Well, it seems like they just don't want to bother doing it.
I don't see why they can't make a tool to scan through the text, calculate the display size of each word using the font description, and put line break so each line fit the size of the dialog box it will be displayed in.
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Actually this sound like a use case for rfid chips (as they are unique).
But still, improving it that way... It feels like they are doing this just to insult them... Wow
Because we all have the same free will.
Well, considering the mount of dialog boxes kept unchanged from XP and all, it seems pretty obvious that Vista is not "all new code". And what would be the point, as long as core component are rewritten, why would they redo the whole gui code?
Well, it seems like they just don't want to bother doing it. I don't see why they can't make a tool to scan through the text, calculate the display size of each word using the font description, and put line break so each line fit the size of the dialog box it will be displayed in.