Re: Shorter filenames in open dialog?

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:12:38 -0400, Isaac Raway <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Well I haven't had any luck getting this to behave how I would like, so  
> an illustration may be in order:
>
> http://blueapples.org/files/nedit_motif_open_dialog.gif
>
> This image shows what I see when I select the File > Open command.

I can see your frustrations now. :-) This is not how my Motif works. I am  
using OpenMotif 2.3.3 right now, and I think that you can configure this.  
My dialog looks like this:

http://www.sacrideo.us/~arcfide/tmp/nedit_motif_open_dialog.png

And that is with the following resource set:

nedit.stdOpenDialog:    true

However, setting that will not fix your problem.

> To be honest I am not sure if this is the default Motif dialog or if it  
> is "the special nedit open dialog".

This is the NEdit dialog, not the standard one. Notice that it does not  
have the file field in the bottom. This is done to encourage a more  
efficient workflow of typing the file name directly into the file box, but  
I like to have the field there.

> I had thought it was the default Motif one but perhaps I am wrong - I  
> don't use Motif very much and haven't for a long time. How would I go  
> about switching to the default dialog if this is not it?

Reading further along in the Motif Reference manuals, I believe that what  
you are showing is the "traditional" 1.2 Motif dialog, which has to do  
with the XmNPathMode resource. In this case, if you open the file open  
dialog in NEdit and then use editres, you can see that there is a  
"FileSelect" widget; this is an XmFileSelectionBox, which has the pathMode  
resource on it. I will bet that yours is set to 'path_mode_full' which is  
the old style 1.2 dialog, which removes an extra filter field and has the  
full paths in the dialog box.

To change this, I used the following in my resource file:

nedit*FileSelect.pathMode: path_mode_relative

Which is what my NEdit is set to by default. If I change it to the other I  
get the behavior that you experience. So, to put it simply, I have the  
following:

nedit*FileSelect.pathMode: path_mode_relative
nedit.StdOpenDialog: true

and you have

nedit*FileSelect.pathMode: path_mode_full
nedit.StdOpenDialog: false

More or less. What version of Motif are you using? Maybe lesstif does  
these things differently than OpenMotif?

	Aaron W. Hsu

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