I tried solution using submenus. See attached patch.
It creates submenus "Source addresses" and "Destination addresses".
It has only one (but very small from my point of view) disadvantage. The
option menu can not be synchronized with submenu item. So I removed all
gtk_option_menu_set_history(). I think usability was not decreased with
this change.
Regards,
Tom
Guy Harris wrote:
>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 6:20 AM, Tomas Kukosa wrote:
>
> > The list (menu) of possible columns in the Edit/Preferences/Columns is
> > higher than my screen. The last column I can read is "Packet lenght
> > (bytes)".
>
> I put this into the category "option menus suck".
>
> (Yes, I know, I now work for a company that loves option menus; we make
> them scrollable, at least, but they still suck, as they don't let you
> fill in some web forms without reaching for the rodent.)
>
> Perhaps we should use a (non-editable, if that's supported, as only the
> values in the values list are valid) combo box rather than an option
> menu in this case.
>
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