Re: Bugs & Probs with the panel.

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Caolan McNamara wrote:

> another little HCI gotcha is menus, if theres more entries on the menu than 
> fits on the screen there should be the capacity to scroll the menu so that you
> can select any of the entries, you can see that xaw doesnt have any
> cunning way to do this so for instance on my machine with loads
> of fonts i cant select past the ones beginning with c with xfontsel as they 
> are listed in a menu thats too long to fit on screen. 

	A good way to work around this problem is to make xfontsel a shell
script which will preload the nextaw library THEN call the real xfontsel. 
This makes that problem go away.  I highly recommend it. 

						-Ben

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