Dialog box width

[djschwarz]

When I edit a label style from the context menu, my dialog box is a standard width as shown in the first screen shot.  My custom names for the label styles are longer than the box.  I can stretch the width of the dialog box as shown below as the stretched width, but when I do the command again, the box is back to a standard width.  I have searched a little in the cui, but have had no luck.  Any help would be appreciated.

Doug

Standard Width

Standard Width

Stretched Width

[stevenh0616]

From my understanding, the dialog box sizing is either hard coded into the code or it writes out to the registry profile for the version. For instance, here's the Labeling Tool dialog and window position. You would need to figure out the hex code position data in the registry and plug these values in manually as it doesn't seem yours is saving to the registry. Use caution if you get in here to edit anything. It's also possible that that dialog is not saved to this location.

[tyronebk]

Steven has led you in the right direction. I think the registry entry you are looking for is:
...\Dialogs\AeccUiDlgGenericScHost

Unfortunately, it appears that the position of this dialog is stored in the registry but the size is not. When that dialog closes it properly writes the window position values (i.e. Left/Top/Bottom/Right) to the registry, but when you open that dialog, it seems only the Top and Left values are pulled from the registry, Right and Bottom, which would define the size, are ignored.

A quick way to tell which registry entries are associated with a dialog is to temporarily rename the Dialogs registry node (e.g. Dialogs1). Now when you open and close a dialog, if the dialog information is stored under the Dialogs node, a new version of the Dialogs node will be created, and only the registry entries needed for that dialog will be created (plus the AllAnavDialogs entries). Delete the newly created Dialogs node, and rename Dialogs1 back to Dialogs to get back to where you started.