[rescue] Rows of buttons in xmessage

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Is there a way to get xmessage to show more than one row of buttons?  I have
> too many buttons to show on one line.

Not without hacking xmessage.

I started doing this once, but found it to be a total pain in the ass
because you don't know in advance how big the buttons are going to be.

> Failing that, what else could I use to provide a clicky-clicky interface to
> a number of choices on a dynamic list?

Tk?  PerlTk's pretty manageable.


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