> On Jul 25, 2018, at 1:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 24.07.2018, 16:05 -0700 schrieb list_em...@icloud.com: >> This is an old problem that I know I filed a ticket on years ago. > > You remember which?
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9316 > >> The dialog for Cross References attempts to display the entire path >> to the file in a pop-up menu, regardless of how long the file path >> is. At the same time, in an attempt to display the long pop-up menu >> item, the width of the dialog box is adjusted, apparently without >> limit. The width can easily exceed the width of the screen. The user >> can, with patience, drag the dialog box so that the right edge is >> visible and can thus click on OK or Cancel or Apply, but attempts to >> drag the right side of the box to the left and thus make the box >> narrower, fail, as resizing is not allowed. This behavior persists >> even if the current file path is not long, but a previously opened >> long file path remains as a pop-up option. > > Interesting. Here (Linux, LyX 2.3.1svn), the path is truncated. Which > version of LyX is that? 2.3.0 > >> (Why do old file names live in this menu anyway?) > > These are only all opened buffers (including those opened in "hidden" > state). > >> This isn’t how things are supposed to work. A long string for a pop- >> up menu item is supposed to be truncated and terminated with an >> ellipse, …, and hovering over the truncated string should show a >> tooltip with the entire string. > > I agree. Maybe some Mac-specific problem? > > Jürgen > >> >> Jerry >> >> >>
