Issues regarding the nedit file dialogue

[Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3]

From: Michael Smith <smithm at netapps.com.au>
> You can use X resources to set the default size of the file 
> selection box:
> 
> nedit*XmFileSelectionBox.width: 500
> nedit*XmFileSelectionBox.height: 400

Thank you, this works!!

(Sorry for my late reply; I had overlooked that Nedit Mailing List
Digest first...)

> > Second, I am missing the ".." entry in the list of 
> directories, which
> > makes
> > it cumbersome to navigate up one directory level.
> 
> You can change the type of file selection box by using the resource:
> 
> nedit.stdOpenDialog: False

This works too!

> This is documented in Help -> Customising -> X Resources

I had seen it, but I must admit that I did not understand its
implications.


> From: Tony Balinski <ajbj at free.fr>
> > Third, when selecting a directory or file by double-click 
> (instead of,
> > say, single click plus click on the respective button), I found that
> > nedit does not respect the double click settings of KDE. 
> For example,
> > I'm a slow double-clicker, so I have set KDE to accept as 
> double click
> > when the two clicks are as far as 900 ms apart. With nedit, 
> you need to
> > doubleclick very rapidly (in the filedialogue), or it would 
> not work.
> 
> Ronald,
> 
> This is probably another mismatch between KDE's settings and those
> picked up by Motif from the X server for NEdit. You can try setting
> the resource nedit.multiClickTime (see nedit's Help->Customizing->
> X Resources) to adjust the time to a suitable value for you - use the
> -xrm argument to test it out, eg:
> 
>   nedit -xrm 'nedit.multiClickTime: 900' other-arguments...

Great! Works perfectly well.

> From: Joerg Fischer <jf505 at gmx.de>
> In addition to the other hints you should check whether you're using
> lesstif, see Help -> Version.  With real Motif the dialog should be
> sized to fit directories and files.  It's one of the drawbacks of
> lesstif that this resizing doesn't work. 

It says:

With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]

So I suppose it's not lesstif....


Regards,

Ronald