Re: Choose from list change in AS 1.5.5
Re: Choose from list change in AS 1.5.5
- Subject: Re: Choose from list change in AS 1.5.5
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:40:38 -0800
On 2/15/01 12:24 AM, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
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Unfortunately the mysterious conditions which truncate the prompt are still
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present in the new interface for 'choose from list'. It seems to have
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something to do with the length of list items: if they are all short, then
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the list dialog window is narrow, and prompts, even relatively short ones
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but which would have to continue on another line, get truncated without
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warning. I can't see a way to ensure that the window will always be wide
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enough, especially when the list items are unknown in advance.
There is a truncation at 255 characters, regardless of any other
situation.
The following applies to a screen resolution of 800 by 600 on an iMac; I
did not test to see if changing the resolution will affect the results,
nor did I test it on any other size of monitor.
In addition, There is a maximum of eight lines for the prompt, regardless
of the width of the dialog. The minimum width of the dialog is
equivalent to seventeen capital W or capital M characters (which are the
widest characters in the Chicago font) or 26 numerals (which are all the
same width in the Chicago font). Anything longer than eight lines at
whatever width the dialog is will be truncated; however, the
255-character truncation takes precedence.
The maximum number of items displayed in the list, without activating the
scroll bar, is 26.
Also (and I consider this to be a worse problem, and a definite bug), if
the number of lines in the prompt added to the number of lines displayed
in the list exceed 31, the bottom of the dialog (the part below the list,
containing the buttons) is pushed below the bottom of the monitor; if
there are 34 lines, the buttons are completely below the bottom edge of
the monitor.
--Michelle
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