Re: Menu too large

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Max J. Werner wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a problem with the menu lib. When I have a menu with entries
> which are to wide to fit in the window then post_menu() returns
> E_NO_ROOM. Is there a way to let the menu handle the size even it is too
> wide to fit in the window? Or do I have to cut the strings inside the
> items (which would be a very ugly solution, since I need the full-length
> strings later)?

I don't think (reading the code) that there is a workaround.  That's odd
since (unlike forms), the internal data is not fixed-length.  I'll
probably change the check (and allow menus to display up to the screen
width).

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