Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem with "select" pulldown lists

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:20:05AM -0400, Small, Gene wrote:
> Lynx,
> 
> Has anyone noticed a problem with the formatting of select pulldowns
> when positioned exactly to the screen edge? I am running lynx with the
> "-nocolor -nomargins -nobold" options which may or may not have any
> effect on the problem. The problem that is occurring is that when the
> item is selected and the items of the list are displayed they use the
> entire width of the screen - not just the width of the widest element.
> This is repeatable both on my device which has a fixed width (26
> character) display and on a terminal window where I can vary the width.
> When I set the width to 26 the problem occurs and when set to 27 it does
> not. 

Here's a fix

--- LYCurses.c.orig     2005-10-11 19:22:32.000000000 -0400 
+++ LYCurses.c  2005-10-12 19:28:07.000000000 -0400 
@@ -1690,8 +1690,13 @@ 
     if (*left_x > 0 && (*left_x + *width + 4) < LYcolLimit)
        form_window = newwin(*height, *width + 4, *top_y, *left_x - 1);
     if (form_window == 0) {
-       *width = LYcolLimit - 4; 
-       form_window = newwin(*height, LYcolLimit, *top_y, 0); 
+       if (*width > LYcolLimit - 4) { 
+           *width = LYcolLimit - 4; 
+           *left_x = 1; 
+       } else { 
+           *left_x = LYcolLimit - 4 - *width; 
+       } 
+       form_window = newwin(*height, *width + 4, *top_y, *left_x - 1); 
     }
     if (form_window == 0) {
        HTAlert(POPUP_FAILED);

The last change to that chunk was in 2.8.6dev.6, e.g., the one for
LYstartPopup().

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