On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 09:43, Derek Atkins wrote: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As you seem to have discovered, the cell default > > widths are configued via sample text. The reason > > for this is that setting arbitrary values for defaults > > is brittle in the face of different font and i18n settings > > for different users. > > > > dave > > Yea, I wish that were documented somewhere. I spent about 12 > man-hours trying to figure that out. :( > > OBTW, take a look at the new Order Entry dialog. In particular, try > clicking on the datecell popup button to bring up the calendar. > You'll see that the calendar comes up within the frame but the frame > is too short, meaning you lose the bottom row or so (at least with my > dimensions). > > Other than making the window larger (which I think I might do > anyways), do you have any suggestions? Is there something I can do to > have the date widget popup on top of the window rather than inside the > window?
No, the register popups are part of the register canvas, so they will always be inside the window. I tried making them separate windows but was not successful. There are lots of complications involving keeping the windows in sync and handling mouse & key events correctly that I wasn't able to solve. dave
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