Re: Horizontal formating problem under lesstif

In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:53:56 -0800."
             <199812060453.UAA16860@adam.yggdrasil.com> 
> 	Wow.  Amaya has really come a long way in the last year.
> I especially like the speed.  Also, let me thank "Sam"
> (mrsam@geocities.com) for his message to this list on minor fixes
> needed to get amaya to build.  I had made similar changes, but Sam's
> patch is cleaner.

Ok. These patches will be in next release.

> 
> 	Anyhow, I have built amaya using the lesstif-0.87.0 library under
> GNU/Linux.  I am experiencing one quite annoying bug that may be
> a lesstif bug.  So, I would appreciate it if someone using amaya
> linked with Genuine OSF/Motif would give this a whirl.  Visit
> http://www.slashdot.org and make sure that amaya is thin enough
> so that it will do horizontal scrolling.  When I do this, the
> scroll bar is activated, but displays as if the entire width fit
> into the window.  I.e., it looks like this:
> 
> 	| <============================================> |
> 
> 	when it should look like this:
> 
> 	|                             <================> |

This is not a bug of lesstif but an Amaya bug. The scroll bar takes into 
account
the width of the body element instead of the greater included element.
I hope to solve it soon.

> 
> 	The left half of the page is not visible, because I
> am looking at the right half of the page (a funny side to
> default to, and perhaps related to this problem), but I cannot
> use the scroll bar to scroll to the other side.
> 
> 	If I make the window still thinner, the horizontal scroll
> bar continues acting as if the entire horizontal area is viewable.
> If I then make the window wider again, something strange happens.
> The small viewable area is horizontally magnified (at least in
> terms of placements of the icons) so that the same small amount
> of information is viewable.  For example, www.slashdot.org has an
> icon bar running across the top of the page.  If I shrink the window
> so that only two icons fit in the viewable area and then expand the
> window again, I will see two icons with a lot of space between them.
> 
> 	Anyhow, I hope this report is helpful.  If anybody can confirm
> or refute this behavior on Arena-1.3b + OSF/Motif, that would certainly
> help isolate this problem, and I would appreciate it.
> 
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  Irene.

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