Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

988.0. "Attached Dialog Box won't expand." by AIAG::SURESH (Suresh) Tue Jun 20 1989 17:12

 In my uil file I have declared a attached_dialog_box with a menu bar and
 pull down menus.

 I fetch them in once and fetch  a work_area_menu widget as a child of the
 attached_dialog_box in run time. Also in run time I create the toggle
 buttons in the work_area_menu. Everything is fine until the number of choices
 (toggle buttons) is more than 7 or 8. Then instead of the attached_dialog_box
expanding the choices go into the second column in the ADB. Also if the label
in the toggle button goes over the width of the dialog box the ADB doesn't 
expand and only the label until the width of ADB is seen. 

 Is it because the work_area_menu was not declared as child in UIL file.Can
 anyone suggest what could be the problem.

   POPUPSHELL --> Attached_Dialog_Box
                  |            |
                 MenuBar      Work Area Menu  \
                  |                 |          \ These two are created at run
                PullDown Menus    Toggle Buttons \ time using low level routines.

    This is standard behavior in menus.  You can try setting
    orientation to horizontal and menu_num_columns to one (that's
    interpreted to mean "rows" in the horizontal orientation).
    As a last resort you can try setting menu_packing to none and
    position all your toggles yourself.
    							- Vick