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 Riki > > Jerry >
