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MSW implementation of wxProgressDialog adjusted the dialog size to the size of the message shown in it on each update, resulting in visually unpleasant constant jumping around (this is the same problem that we used to have in wxGenericProgressDialog long time ago, see #10624). Minimize this by using TDM_UPDATE_ELEMENT_TEXT instead of TDM_SET_ELEMENT_TEXT for changing the element text. This still increases the dialog size if the new element text is longer than the old value, but at least doesn't shrink it back if it is shorter, which is already quite an improvement. Notice that this change requires using TDF_EXPAND_FOOTER_AREA style, as otherwise the expanded information can't be updated without a re-layout. But this doesn't seem to be a big loss and it's not really clear why did we explicitly clear this flag before anyhow. Update the dialogs sample to make it easy to test for this behaviour and the documentation to mention MSW version peculiarities.
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wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at http://docs.wxwidgets.org/
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