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Re: Choose from list goes out of screen range
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Re: Choose from list goes out of screen range


  • Subject: Re: Choose from list goes out of screen range
  • From: Jan Bultereys <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:04:32 +0200
  • Thread-topic: Choose from list goes out of screen range

Hi bill, yes that's exactly what I expect it to do....

Your example shows what it should do, but sometimes my list goes out of
range...

Pretty strange.... I have my resolution set on 1920 x 1200 (apple screen)

Many thanks,jan

> From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:58:03 -0300
> To: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Choose from list goes out of screen range
>
> At 10:52 AM +0200 7/20/07, Jan Bultereys wrote:
>> Sometimes the "choose from list" dialog box goes outside of my screen
>> range...
>
>  That's odd. I've never seen that happen. I have several scripts that create
> very long lists, and the list window only spans the height of the screen. The
> scroll bar is there to allow access to the list items that are "not visible".
>
>  Just to make sure that I wasn't dreaming, I just ran this.
>
> set listTest to {}
> repeat with i from 1 to 1000
> set temp to (i as text)
> copy temp to end of listTest
> end repeat
> choose from list listTest
>
> ...and the list behaves exactly as expected (scroll bar appears, both buttons
> can be clicked).
>
> You shouldn't have to manage list length. That's not how it was intended to
> be, and there's something else going on to create your problem. The list
> window should not extend beyond the bottom of your screen. The routine that
> generates that window certainly appears to be "aware" of the screen height.
>
> Do you have some odd monitor resolution change thing going on?
>
> - web
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