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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Subject: Trouble initializing width of empty List widget
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.034436.1439@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 03:44:36 GMT
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I'm loading two ScrolledLists into a PanedWidget in a FormWidget.  The trouble
is that the application starts with both these lists empty.  This causes a big
problem with initial horizontal sizing of the lists; I can't seem to find a
resource that will force them to come out at a reasonable width.  Since they
will be used for display of fixed-size items in a monospace font, I know what
a reasonable minimum width is.

I've resorted to preloading one of the lists with an item which is a string of
blanks of the appropriate length - this causes the Pane and Form attachments
to drag the other out to the appropriate size.  But it's a kludge.  Couldn't
find anything in the doc...

Am I missing something?

Tim Bray
tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu