GUI: Layout and margin alignment issues in Pause and form windows on XFCE 4.20

[rolandomunoz]

By the way, I see that the layout of pause windows is a bit chaotic on your system. I should try to repair that as well. Can you give me some details as to how to replicate those (assumedly Debian-13-window-manager-wide) layout settings? (...)

Originally posted by @PaulBoersma in #3108

Dear Paul,

I found the same results for pause and form windows on my system.

I am using Debian 13.3 with XFCE 4.20.1. My resolution is 1920x1080 with 100% scaling and the Greybird theme.

Here are my observations:

Field text

The first issue is related to the text field when numberOfLines is set to 1 ( text: 1, variable$, initialValue$ and text: variable$, initialValue$ ). This affects the fields that follow it:

beginPause: "Test layout"
	text: "Text", ""
	real: "Real", "1.0"

	text: "Text", ""
	boolean: "boolean", "no"

	text: "Text", ""
	choice: "choice", 1
	option: "A"
	option: "B"

	text: "Text", ""
	optionmenu: "optionmenu", 1
	option: "C"
	option: "D"

	text: "Text", ""
	infile: "outfile", "audio-out.wav"

clicked = endPause: "Ok", "Apply", "Cancel", 1 , 3

Interestingly, when I replace text with folder, infile, outfile or use text with numberOfLines > 1 , this issue does not occur.

Field vector

The same issue described above occurs with vectors when numberOfLines == 1 as in the following code:

beginPause: "Test layout"
   realvector: 1, "realvector", "(whitespace-separated)", "10 3" 
   word: "word 1", ""

   positivevector: 1, "naturalvector", "(whitespace-separated)", "10 3" 
   word: "word 1", ""
clicked = endPause: "Ok", "Apply", "Cancel", 1 , 3

Additionally, within the vector fields, the option button and the text boxes appear to be overlapping or slightly merged

Field comment

comment_text$ = "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
beginPause: "Test layout"
	comment: comment_text$
	natural: "Next case", 1
	comment: comment_text$
	optionmenu: "optionmenu", 1
	option: "A"
	option: "B"
	comment: comment_text$
	choice: "choice", 1
	option: "A"
	option: "B"
	comment: comment_text$
	infile: "infile", "audio.wav"
	comment: comment_text$
	positivevector: 1, "naturalvector", "(whitespace-separated)", "10 3" 
clicked = endPause: "Ok", "Apply", "Cancel", 1 , 3

There is also a related issue in Windows regarding comments at this link. However, I have not been able to test it in the latest versions yet.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if there are any other specific logs or settings I can provide to help you replicate these layout issues.

Best wishes,
Rolando