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Walt Mankowski wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:25:42PM -0500, Dave Turner wrote:
> > P.S. Sorry for breaking threading - I lost a few messages in a mail
> > server hiccough.
>
> To repeat, my suggestions were:
Thanks.
> 1. Use a smaller font.
Good idea. Does anybody know the function to do this?
> 2. Redesign the UI to use a true listbox instead of a menu. 148
> items in a menu seems unwieldy.
This is no more than the size of a font menu. The cow-orker I randomly
polled had 347. Since they're alphabetical, it's not hard to find the
one you need. I may also put the most-recently-used at the top, like a
font thingy in Word. Is there a widget that acts at all like that
widget? It's like a combo box, but it has different semantics.
> Another idea which just occurred to me would be to break the genres
> into subgenres of a more manageable size, e.g. Rock/Classic,
> Jazz/Bebop, etc.
The documentation for OptionMenu says it can't have any sub-menus, which
means this probably won't work. It seems possible that I could place a
MenuItem like any other widget (and ditch OptionMenu entirely). I will
try this when I get home.
--Off-topic--
Hm, I think the anti-solutions presented by Kurt suggest an idea for a
new game - a sort of inverse Advocacy. A problem is presented with an
obvious solution (not to say that the solution in my situation is
obvious), and players attempt to come up
with alternate solutions. Alternately, they can come up with reasons
why the standard solution is infeasable, inefficient, or otherwise
undesireable.
--
-Dave Turner Stalk me: (215)-545-2859
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