"File open" dialog size

Scott Tringali scott.tringali at etnus.com
Tue Aug 31 20:09:46 CEST 2004


Offer Kaye wrote:

>>   *XmFileSelectionBox.resizePolicy:    XmRESIZE_NONE

Keeps the window from growing and shrinking as you change to different 
directories, which I find really distracting.


>>   *XmFileSelectionBox.pathMode:        XmPATH_MODE_RELATIVE

For Motif 2, makes the files in the file list be relative paths to a 
single directory.  Similar to a Windows/Mac file dialog box.

The original Motif file selection box actually is built to work off file 
globs that can span multiple directories (like /foo/bar/*/*/*/*.c), so 
the file list can show files across multiple directories.  Very few 
people care about this, and it's confusing for people who expect it to 
work like Windows/Mac.


> And this?
>>   *XmFileSelectionBox.textAccelerators:

It fixes the "Home" key in the directory text field, though I think this 
workaround is now inside NEdit.



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