[comp.soft-sys.andrew] problem with cmenu option

dy@mtgzx.att.com (D Yip) (08/14/90)

I would like to change the horizontal spread of menu panes. I follow the
decription in cmenu.help (see below) and it does not seem to work. 

cmenu.PaneSpread: 1.25
    Determines the horizontal spread of menu panes.  Any value greater
    than or equal to 0.0 may be used; the value must be specified as a
    number plus tenths or hundreths (i.e., 1.0 is an appropriate value
    for cmenu.PaneSpread but 1 is not).  A value of 1.0 means that the
    horizontal and vertical spread will be equivalent.  A value less
    than 1.0 will compress the menu panes inward and a value greater
    than 1.0 will expand them outward.

I placed  cmenu.PaneSpread: 3.25 in my .preferences and also in
.Xdefaults and none of these works. What am I doing wrong??   I really
want to change horizontal spread because the menus are too close
together.  When you try to select something from one menu card, there is
a tendency to jump to another card because  you have moved the mouse
pointer to that card by accident.

thanks for your help,

David K. Yip  (dy@mtgzx.att.com)
(201) 957-5544
AT&T Bell Laboratories
MT 3E-437, 200 Laurel Ave
Middletown, NJ 07748

gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) (08/14/90)

Excerpts from misc: 13-Aug-90 problem with cmenu option D
Yip@mtgzx.att.com (1119+0)

> I would like to change the horizontal spread of menu panes. I follow the
> decription in cmenu.help (see below) and it does not seem to work. 

I'm sorry to say that the documentation that you cite lies.  That
feature is not supported.  The current version of the cmenu help file
does not lie.  Sorry.

Gary Keim
ATK Group