racket/gui: Multi-line message% fields add extra space on the bottom on Windows.
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Description
This Racket application ...
#lang racket/gui
(define the-dialog
(new dialog% [label "quux"]))
(new message%
[label "Es\nwar\neinmal\nvor\nlanger\nZeit"]
[parent the-dialog])
(send the-dialog show #t)
... gives different results on Windows and OpenBSD.
The OpenBSD version (not supplied by me) looks like this ("as expected", one could say):
On Windows, there are additional spaces, one more with every line of text:
One of them is probably wrong.
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Research direction
Start by running the provided #lang racket/gui example on Windows and OpenBSD, then compare the multi-line message% layout shown in the linked screenshots. Trace the message% layout behavior that produces the extra bottom spacing on Windows. Done means the sample no longer adds one extra space per line and remains consistent with the expected layout.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100