Sizes
The most common hints set are related to size—the minimum and possibly maximum size that your user interface should occupy. Minimum size is almost universally supported; every graphical system will try to allow an application to use as much space as it claims to need. Be sure to have sensible sizes though as, especially when targeting multiple different platform types, the minimum size shouldn't be bigger than the screen available! To avoid this situation, the operating system will probably show your application windows smaller than requested so that the user doesn't have the problem of accessing portions of the user interface that are off-screen. For this reason alone, it's recommended that the minimum size set is truly the smallest ...
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