Re: Shorter filenames in open dialog?

Well, I wish I knew more about motif... even after installing openmotif4, 
I am getting an error including Xm/Xm.h... any ideas why that might not be 
found?


IJR

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Isaac Raway wrote:

> Well it looks like Fink is configured to build nedit with lesstif. This seems 
> to be at least part of the issue. I am current building openmotif4 and will 
> rebuild nedit from the tarball after this completes. Hopefully this will fix 
> the issue, or at least give me configuration options ot fix it. Thanks for 
> your help so far... so close!
>
>
> IJR
>
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
>
>> 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
>> 
>> -- 
>> Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.
>
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