| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Has anyone noticed that programs like Deluxe Paint have a problem
when trying to read fonts into a pull down menu when the list of
fonts won't fit within the height of the screen?
This can be a real pain on a hard drive, where one can accumulate
25 or so fonts in the FONTS: directory. After storing all the Smokey
fonts on my hard drive, I noticed that DPaint would act 'wierd'
when trying to install fonts. No hangs or anything, but the pull
down fonts menu would disappear when the list exceeded the screen
height.
I could have sworn I'd seen scrolling menu capabilities on the Mac
for exceedingly long lists. Does such a low-level function exist
within the bowels of Intuition? I'd hate to think that such a slick
feature had been left out, although I assume a clever person could
do it in a roundabout way.
Ed.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 894.1 | No Scrolling Menus | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Fri Nov 13 1987 05:11 | 14 |
Re: .0 Amiga menu's cannot scroll, but they are not limited to being a single column of entries either. I have a program (microGnu Emacs with file browser) where a menu list can be up to three or four columns wide and fill the entire screen. I don't know if you can have submenus if you use multi-column memu items. IconEd on the Workbench doesn't use multi-column menu lists, but it does use multi-column submenus. Consider the submenu in the form of a matrix that appears when you are over the "copy from" menu item. Personally, I think that the DPaint font menu should bring up a requester (or at least should bring one up if you exceed some set number of fonts). | |||||