Many thanks for your reply.
To #1:
All other components seem to resize correctly when changing the width of the
Settings window. The OK/Cancel buttons stay at the right window edge, text fields, tables and boxes with numbers and the date resize as well (at some point). While decreasing the width, the Cancel/OK buttons will slowly move right beside the
Scrape and
Scrape episode buttons. Sizing the window even smaller, it looks like OK/Cancel buttons are pushing the
Scrape and
Scrape episode buttons to the left, which leads to a point where the
Scrape button is completely hidden by the drop down of TV show scrapers. Btw: The size of that drop down never changes – neither when resizing the
Settings window nor when choosing a very short named scraper like AniDB. (screen resolution: 1920×1080)
Note: This problem does not occur in tMM v3.1.11 (and never happened in v3). But opposite to the behaviour in v4 the scraper drop down resizes at some point when I change the size of the
Settings window to a small width (< 596 px)
and the
OK/Cancel buttons do not (never) push the
Scape/Scrape episode buttons to the left to be covered under the drop down control. But v3 also does not include the
Universal TV show scraper. Could this have any relation (chronological)?
To #3:
I am aware that symbol and text are two different components. The trouble seems to be that they are not touching each other at the lower/upper edge, leaving that small "dead" gap. I was thinking repositioning the controls might solve that issue.
To #4.2:
As a more or less experienced user of tMM, I know the difference of those two
Scraper options, but I don't know for others. One could be renamed to "Scraper settings" instead and in this case I'd suggest it for the one that holds the API key (in the main
Scraper settings). Maybe others prefer for a good reason the opposite or are just fine
as it is).
To #4.3, #5, #6:
Example what I mean
So it seems possible to define a text control to be wrapped correctly depending on its current window size. My question was (and still is) why this cannot be done in all other cases too and why is the same control type with exactly the same text in one form different to another (see initial post, image in #5: "
NOTE: The above options will create …")?
I am quite aware that text can vary in translations (see below), but as in my example above, taken from tMM itself, all that happens is, it will move the sections underneath a little bit further down (and that is fine).
Anyway, I can understand that at some point you have to make decisions for the (time) cost-value ratio and I respect that.
As you were touching on the subject
translations …
A lot of source strings in the tMM menus contain a form like "
… selected movie(s)" to include the singular/plural possibilities. First I have to say it makes reading more difficult and complex, but the main trouble starts looking to translations. In some languages it's not enough just to add a plural "s" to the noun (same way as it is not possible in English for words like "country", "man" or "child" – you have to write "… the selected country/countries"). In English you have just one article "the" and that is all the same for all genders and all cases of the associated noun, no matter if plural or singular – that's easy. Not so in French, German, Italian etc. E.g. in French "The" could be "le" (male) or "la" (female), for plural "les".
So "
… the movie(s)/TV show(s) …" will become "
… le film/les films/la série/les séries …" or "
... le(s) film(s)/la/les série(s) …".
In German it's even worse as also all related adjectives have to be declined to the correct gender, case and plural/singular form of that noun.
Example: "
… the selected movie(s)/TV show(s) …" will become in German "
… der/die gewählte(n) Film(e)/Serie(n) … "
(We are even lucky, that
TV show in German is
female and that the female article is the same that is used for plural forms of all genders. I don't want to imagine it to be
neuter …
)
In addition the verb form is different (conjugation) for plural and singular (example: [EN]
it/they can -> [DE]
es kann/sie können). You may guess the mess of brackets and slashes and the length of menu items, beside the wild order of articles, adjectives and nouns. Menu commands that should be short and clear become nearly unreadable (and even in English the tMM menu items are already quite long anyway).
In my understanding "... all movies including a number …" would be enough and correct to address a selection even it will be only one movie in the end. In this case the plural form "movies" includes a single movie as well and there is no need for a "movie(s)" form. Maybe you can share that opinion.
With kind regards
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