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From: glp@ibism.UUCP (Greg Parkinson)
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Subject: Re: Trouble initializing width of empty List widget
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Date: 10 Jan 91 16:13:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jan9.034436.1439@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
> 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...
> 

Can't you set the Form width to your minimum, and allow resizing?
It works for me.....


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