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Re: Mac Widget Limitation? [message #65765] Thu, 19 March 2009 21:03
stefan5465 is currently offline  stefan5465
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On 18 Mar, 19:31, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a report today that the Mac cannot display
> more than 30 items in a droplist. I'm skeptical,
> because such a limitation does not exist in Windows
> or UNIX in general. Could someone with a Mac run this
> code and tell me if cows appear?
>
> tlb = widget_base()
> value = [replicate('coyote', 30), replicate('cow', 30)]
> droplist = widget_droplist(tlb, XSIZE=150, Value=[value])
> widget_control, tlb, /realize
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

David,

Here's what I get:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7122/picture1uun.png

Stefan
Re: Mac Widget Limitation? [message #65801 is a reply to message #65765] Wed, 18 March 2009 12:39 Go to previous message
ben.bighair is currently offline  ben.bighair
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Registered: April 2007
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On Mar 18, 3:31 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a report today that the Mac cannot display
> more than 30 items in a droplist. I'm skeptical,
> because such a limitation does not exist in Windows
> or UNIX in general. Could someone with a Mac run this
> code and tell me if cows appear?
>
> tlb = widget_base()
> value = [replicate('coyote', 30), replicate('cow', 30)]
> droplist = widget_droplist(tlb, XSIZE=150, Value=[value])
> widget_control, tlb, /realize
>

I can see cows, but not all 30 as the last 20 or so are cut off by my
tiny screen.

{ ppc darwin unix Mac OS X 6.3 Mar 23 2006 32 64}

Cheers,
Ben
Re: Mac Widget Limitation? [message #65802 is a reply to message #65801] Wed, 18 March 2009 12:37 Go to previous message
Brian Larsen is currently offline  Brian Larsen
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Registered: June 2006
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I saw no issues, I saw 30 coyotes and what looked like fewer than 30
cows, a little tall for my screen so some went off the bottom I think.

IDL Version 7.0.4, Mac OS X (darwin x86_64 m64).


Brian

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