[Paraview] Full-screen file dialog menu and an outstanding bug

[Randy Hudson]

I just discovered an outstanding bug (#2110 [see 
http://www.vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2110&pos=18]) whose symptom 
resembles the problem I've been having with the paraview file dialog on 
my MacBook Pro and on a couple Linux systems, to wit,

    Since my users won't add an extension to their filenames, I have to
    select my custom reader from a long menu of readers available from
    the file dialog.

    But, on the machines I mentioned, this menu fills the entire screen
    horizontally and extends into the virtual space beyond the screen
    vertically -- without the helpful, vertical-scrolling carets one
    might see on other systems.

    So, while holding down the mouse button, I have to use the vertical
    arrow key to cycle through the reader list to the top or bottom, and
    then count the arrow-keystrokes off-screen to the reader I need (the
    number having been determined by trial and error).

    (I'd have to do the same to select "All Files", since that's
    off-screen, too.)

    Silly.


Is anyone working on this?

Will it only be fixed when paraview goes to Qt?


Thanks.


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Randy.