More reasons not to like the chart editor

[UserLS]

When you show the editor to your client, it should not give the client an impression, that you just had no time to work on it.

• It is a sizable dialog, which you can reduce to the minimum size of just the caption bar. Why? It should not allow me to hide any controls on the form, while I am resizing it (ideally)
• When it is opened, it has a default size, which is not big enough, to show all the controls on all the tabs. In particular, the "Text" tab, wherever shown, is missing its bottom part, and client just has to read your mind and know, that there are more options outside of the screen.
• Controls just run into each other, hiding parts of the text, so you have to use your imagination to read, for example, the word "Logarithmic" on the Chart->Axes->Scales tab, or the word "Style" on the Chart->Axes->Labels->Style tab.
• Did I mention 5 rows of tabs in some cases, but 3-4 rows is a norm? Do you really expect people to remember where all this stuff is hidden?
• Task-bar buttons are created for each pop-up sub-dialog, and some of those dialogs have an icon, other than my application's icon (no icon would be fine, but some other icon is not acceptable)

I know, some of these issues I already have mentioned before, but here I want to explain, why we really need a way to show just those parts of the editor, which we can salvage and otherwise would require too much of coding from our side to duplicate, what you already have. We need to be able to bring a single page as a dialog (any page, which is available in the editor, not just the top level ones). And we need to be able to tell them to use ours (actually, the standard) color dialogs instead of your custom one, which is not working correctly (the color palette is different, the custom colors we cannot control and so on).

[Narcís]

Hi UserLS,

I have added your request to the list (TF02014079) to be enhanced for future releases.