Re: Exmh 2.7 Flist much slower?

Turns out there were a number of fixes, including tweaks to the
black-diamond resizer widget.  I tested with detached message and
ftoc windows (either and both). I've checked the results into CVS.

>>>Brent Welch said:
 > Whoops - I suppose I should fully test things before claiming
 > victory.  I changed the packing parameters dynamically without
 > actually restarting.  I'll test the toplevel ftoc and msg, next.
 > 
 > It turns out there is other extra code that isn't necessary.
 > This block of code also adds in the "-expand" for both
 > frames, which isn't what we want.
 > 
 > if {0} {
 >     # Re-pack the two frames if necessary.  If one or both of them are
 >     # Toplevel windows, there's no need to repack.
 >     if {([winfo toplevel .ftocframe] == ".") &&
 >         ([winfo toplevel .msgframe] == ".")} {
 >         pack forget .ftocframe .msgframe
 >         pack .ftocframe .msgframe -fill both -anchor center -expand 1
 >     }
 > }
 > 
 > >>>John Beck said:
 >  > Brent> I figured out the packing bug that makes the ftoc lines 
 > preference no
 >      t
 >  > Brent> match up with your expectations.  The simplest fix to try is 
at
 > about
 >  > Brent> line 585 ...
 >  > 
 >  > Um, you mean 157, right?  :-)
 >  > 
 >  > Brent> ... in exwin.tcl, make it look like this ...
 >  > 
 >  > Those (both suggestions seemed to have the same effect) improved the 
 > situati
 >      on
 >  > in that the ftoc is now 14 lines as I specified.  But there is still 
 > another
 >  > 10 lines or space of unused space below it, which still "snaps back" 
if
 > I tr
 >      y
 >  > to adjust is with the black diamond.  See:
 >  > 
 >  > 	ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/jbeck/exmh/exmh.display.gif
 >  > 
 >  > for what I mean.  So the bug does not seem fully fixed yet.
 >  > 
 >  > -- John
 >  > 
 > 
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Brent Welch
Software Architect, Panasas Inc
Delivering the premier storage system for scalable Linux clusters

www.panasas.com
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