> On Jul 25, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> wrote: > > On 07/24/2018 06:57 PM, list_em...@icloud.com wrote: >> This is an old problem that I know I filed a ticket on years ago. 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. (Why do old file names live in this menu anyway?) >> >> 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. > > Please file a bug report for this: https://www.lyx.org/trac/newticket
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9316 Four years ago. Jerry > > Riki > >> >> Jerry >>
