[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Diplomatic Meeting Window City List

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Thue wrote:

> On Friday 06 July 2001 09:52, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would very like to see PR#771 fixed. But I fear it
> > is too hard to do for now.
> >
> > But at least it should be named as a known bug on the
> > website like this:
> >
> > "If you exchange cities with other players, the list of
> >  cities sometimes is too long to fit on the screen. As a
> >  workaround, you can rename the city to give away to "AAA"
> >  and then exchange it."
> >
> > Christian
> 
> Doesn't gtk have a popupable list that will note how long the screen is 
> and make itself as wide as possible in that case?

GtkMenu's aren't that smart. You can use the ComboBox (?) but that is
plain ugly.
This should be fixed in gtk+ 2.0. The latest development snapshot of gtk+
includes menus that are smart enough to insert arrows to scroll to items
outside the screen like in Windows.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa