Better handling of long curve names sought

[lkoops]

Since I'm mainly looking at data from perfmon, the curve names (labels) are very long and uniform. For example:

"\\PD3200-01\Network Interface(Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet _2)\Bytes Sent/sec"
"\\PD3200-01\Network Interface(Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet _2)\Bytes Received/Sec"
"\\PD3200-01\Network Interface(Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet _2)\Packets Received/sec"
"\\PD3200-01\Network Interface(Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet _2)\Packets Sent/sec"

In most curves dialog boxes (hide curves... for example), I cannot see the full name. Thus, I cannot distinguish between the items in the list. They all look the same. This is especially apparent in the "moving average" dialog from the Generate menu.

If these dialogs could be resized, then the problem would be resolved.

This is a useability issue, so I posted here, rather than under bugs.

Thanks,

-Luke

[DPlotAdmin]

Thanks. Since the max. length for filenames is 256 characters I don't think it's practical to resize a dialog to fit a name that long. Instead I'll probably do something like <first X characters>...<last X characters>

[lkoops]

David,

Your idea is an excellent way to format data that doesn't fit into the space given. Especially for this kind of data. In addition, I think it might be a good idea to give the dialogs a property that allows them to be manually resized by the user.

-Luke