%button layout/sizing bug

[paschlie]

The following demonstrates a subtle %button layout/sizing bug, which results in multi-line %button's being wider, and given proportionately less horizontal margin, than its single-line counterpart.

(when run under macos 13.2.1)...

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#lang racket/gui
(define dialog (instantiate dialog% ("X")))

(define hpanel-1 (new horizontal-panel% [parent dialog] [horiz-margin 0]))
(new button% [parent hpanel-1] [label "X"]) ; much wider than it need be
(new button% [parent hpanel-1] [label "X"])
(new button% [parent hpanel-1] [label "X"])

(define hpanel-2 (new horizontal-panel% [parent dialog] [horiz-margin 0]))
(new button% [parent hpanel-2] [label "XXXX"]) ; max text prior to stretching
(new button% [parent hpanel-2] [label "XXXX"])
(new button% [parent hpanel-2] [label "XXXX"])

(define hpanel-4 (new horizontal-panel% [parent dialog] [horiz-margin 0]))
(new button% [parent hpanel-4] [label "X\nX"]) ; wider with less margin
(new button% [parent hpanel-4] [label "X\nX"])
(new button% [parent hpanel-4] [label "X\nX"])

(define hpanel-5 (new horizontal-panel% [parent dialog] [horiz-margin 0]))
(new button% [parent hpanel-5] [label "XXXXX\nXXXXX"]) ; max text prior to stretching
(new button% [parent hpanel-5] [label "XXXXX\nXXXXX"])
(new button% [parent hpanel-5] [label "XXXXX\nXXXXX"])

(send dialog show #t)

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I personally prefer the less default margin associated with the multi-line %button; but would also strongly prefer their min-width be reduced to being no larger the min-height of the button (for a single line button), and thereby can be as small as required to be square and display a single character (or Nx1 chars for multi-line buttons, and thereby be N x taller than wide); and the horiz-margin around the label be reduced to be only slightly more than apparently allocated for its vert-margin, seemingly being only a few pixels or so (or whatever required to enable the smallest square button to cleanly display a single character).

This is related to the prior feature request #290.