Ok, thanks. For a solution to my problem to track the size of the dialog I
am reading the size of the dialog and laid out elements to calculate the
size I want to allocate to the iuplist control to keep its rastersize to
fit neatly in the dialog.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:38 PM Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> No, if the IupList go beyond the size of the dialog it is because its
> minimum size is greater than the current size of the dialog. The EXPAND=Yes
> situation is when the dialog is greater than the natural size of its
> contents.
>
> > if iuplist is used and it is going to be dynamically populated at
> runtime you are now forced to use visiblelines attribute
>
> This not a "now", it was always like this. visiblelines was created to
> solve that. Can't change that without affecting existing applications.
>
> Best,
> Scuri
>
>
> Em qua, 7 de nov de 2018 às 18:20, Milind Gupta <milind.gu...@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>>
>>> Even IupText will occupy the space available in the dialog if it has
>>> EXPAND!=NO.
>>>
>>>
>> Actually that is what I am saying that even when IupText expands to
>> occupy the space of the resize it does not go beyond the size of the dialog
>> but iuplist does. Having Expand="YES" in iuplist does not effect this
>> behavior.
>>
>> So what I understand is that if iuplist is used and it is going to be
>> dynamically populated at runtime you are now forced to use visiblelines
>> attribute to prevent the list elements from being inaccessible.
>>
>> Milind
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Em qua, 7 de nov de 2018 às 17:15, Milind Gupta <milind.gu...@gmail.com>
>>> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> Hi Antonio,
>>>> This behavior seems very inconsistent and unintuitive to other
>>>> controls. For example if I have a text box and if the text box is filled
>>>> with large amount of text it still respects the size of the dialog.
>>>> Shouldn't the natural behavior always respect the dialog size in which it
>>>> is placed?
>>>>
>>>> Milind
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:05 AM Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No, there isn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Scuri
>>>>>
>>>>> Em qua, 7 de nov de 2018 15:02, Milind Gupta <milind.gu...@gmail.com
>>>>> escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Antonio,
>>>>>> Is there a way to find our how many visible lines would
>>>>>> fit in a dialog when it is resized?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Milind
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:37 AM Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Milind,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can control that with the VISIBLELINES and VISIBLECOLUMNS
>>>>>>> attributes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> Scuri
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Em qua, 7 de nov de 2018 00:02, Milind Gupta <milind.gu...@gmail.com
>>>>>>> escreveu:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> I have a multiple selection list control. During the
>>>>>>>> operation if I put a lot of elements in the list element the scroll
>>>>>>>> bars
>>>>>>>> show up. But if the dialog is resized the list control size immediately
>>>>>>>> explodes to however large it needs to be to remove the scrollbars and
>>>>>>>> goes
>>>>>>>> beyond what the dialog shows. How can I force the list control to not
>>>>>>>> resize automatically beyond the dialog boundaries?
>>>>>>>> The example to show the problem is below. To replicate click the
>>>>>>>> Add button and then resize the dialog.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> require( "iuplua" )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> list = iup.list{MULTIPLE="YES",["1"]="One",["2"]="Two"}
>>>>>>>> button = iup.button{title="ADD",expand="YES"}
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> vbox = iup.vbox {
>>>>>>>> iup.hbox{
>>>>>>>> list,
>>>>>>>> iup.label {title="Label"},
>>>>>>>> iup.text { border="NO"; value="This is good";
>>>>>>>> bgcolor=iup.GetGlobal("DLGBGCOLOR"); readonly="YES"; visiblecolumns=30
>>>>>>>> };
>>>>>>>> gap=10
>>>>>>>> },
>>>>>>>> button
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> function button:action()
>>>>>>>> list.removeitem = "ALL"
>>>>>>>> for i = 1,40 do
>>>>>>>> list[tostring(i)] = "Hello"..tostring(i)
>>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>> dlg = iup.dialog{vbox; title="Dialog",size="QUARTERxQUARTER"}
>>>>>>>> dlg:show()
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> if (iup.MainLoopLevel()==0) then
>>>>>>>> iup.MainLoop()
>>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Milind
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