Recipient List scrolls to new columns loosing names
Jim Strait
solution for. When my Recepient List gets longer that a certain point,
when I select "New Message To:" the list of possiple recipients goes to the
bottom of the screen and continues on to a new column. However, it
displays several recipient nicknames below the bottom of the screen where I
can not see them. I have been adding in a number of bogus recipents that
sort near the bottom to push the ones I want to the next column, as a work
around. But there has to be a better option.
Any ideas?
-Jim
Katrina Knight
> This is an old problem for me that I thought I would see if anyone had a
> solution for. When my Recepient List gets longer that a certain point,
> when I select "New Message To:" the list of possiple recipients goes to the
> bottom of the screen and continues on to a new column. However, it
> displays several recipient nicknames below the bottom of the screen where I
> can not see them.
There are several possible solutions. One thing you should keep in mind is
the Quick recipient list is meant to be a short list of your most commonly
used nicknames, not a replacement for the address book. A second thing to
keep in mind is that it is often quicker to just start typing the nickname
and let autocompletion finish the address rather than using the QRL. If
you haven't tried that, you might want to see if it works better for you.
That being said, the problem with menu items overflowing the screen has to
do with Windows and/or Eudora being confused about where the edge of the
screen is when they're drawing the menu in question. I see this problem
too commonly in other programs too when working with other people's
computers, so I'm inclined to think that Windows is mostly responsible
for it, but I'm not sure about that. You can sometimes fix it by changing
your screen resolution. Even if you change it back to the original setting
a few minutes later, it will sometimes make Windows remember where the
edge of the screen is. Obviously, switching to a higher resolution and
leaving it there will allow more menu items to fit in a column. As will
changing your Windows display settings to use a smaller menu font.
Changing the setting for the heigth of menu entries might fix the problem
totally or can be used to fit more entries on the screen. Changing fonts
can help too, possibily fixing the problem or again, allowing more entries
to fit on the screen in one column.
Lastly, if you are using a new enough version of Eudora and a new enough
version of Windows, you can set menus to scroll rather than wrapping. The
setting is WrapMenus=1 and it goes in the [settings] section of
eudora.ini.
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Katrina
Jim Strait
news:9Ygra.3358$EZ5.1...@news1.epix.net:
> Jim Strait <J...@strait.org> wrote:
>> This is an old problem for me that I thought I would see if anyone
>> had a solution for. When my Recepient List gets longer that a
>> certain point, when I select "New Message To:" the list of
>> possiple recipients goes to the bottom of the screen and continues
>> on to a new column. However, it displays several recipient
>> nicknames below the bottom of the screen where I can not see them.
>
> There are several possible solutions. One thing you should keep in
> mind is the Quick recipient list is meant to be a short list of your
> most commonly used nicknames, not a replacement for the address book.
> A second thing to keep in mind is that it is often quicker to just
> start typing the nickname and let autocompletion finish the address
> rather than using the QRL. If you haven't tried that, you might want
> to see if it works better for you.
>
Until I look at the list I may not remember the nickname. The Address Book
is a little awkward to use if you want to just find one address. The
Recipient List is has every one I would usually need to contact on one
screen (minus the 6 names in the fold).
That said, I bit the bullet and eliminated a large number of the Recipient
List. It was already a small subset. I still wasn't able to get it down
to one column without causing more frustration thab the cure.
> That being said, the problem with menu items overflowing the screen
> has to do with Windows and/or Eudora being confused about where the
> edge of the screen is when they're drawing the menu in question. I see
> this problem too commonly in other programs too when working with
> other people's computers, so I'm inclined to think that Windows is
> mostly responsible for it, but I'm not sure about that. You can
> sometimes fix it by changing your screen resolution. Even if you
> change it back to the original setting a few minutes later, it will
> sometimes make Windows remember where the edge of the screen is.
> Obviously, switching to a higher resolution and leaving it there will
> allow more menu items to fit in a column. As will changing your
> Windows display settings to use a smaller menu font. Changing the
> setting for the heigth of menu entries might fix the problem totally
> or can be used to fit more entries on the screen. Changing fonts can
> help too, possibily fixing the problem or again, allowing more entries
> to fit on the screen in one column.
>
I already had it set to the highest resolution (1280 X 1024) and large
fonts. Much smaller and I will go blinder than I already am. I always
hate switching the resolution as a test because it rearranges all my
desktop icons from where I know where they are. But I did it anyway. No
go. By increasing the resolution it made the fonts larger and made the
fold loss larger. I tried adjusting the various Eudora font sizes, but
that effects everything but the New Message To list.
> Lastly, if you are using a new enough version of Eudora and a new
> enough version of Windows, you can set menus to scroll rather than
> wrapping. The setting is WrapMenus=1 and it goes in the [settings]
> section of eudora.ini.
>
I have Windows XP Pro with all the updates and Eudora 5.2.0.9 Paid. That
should be the latest & greatest
I tried that WrapMenus=1 but that had no effect on the Recipient List.
I've seen this problem in every version of Eudora I've had. I thought a
fix might have come along by now. The Recipient List has always been a
weak point.
Thanks anyway.
Katrina Knight
> Until I look at the list I may not remember the nickname. The Address Book
> is a little awkward to use if you want to just find one address.
Why don't you give your nicknames names that are easily remembered? Is the
problem that you don't remember who you're supposed to be sending the
message to at all? Eudora allows you almost total freedom in choosing how
to name the nicknames, so you should be able to come up with a scheme that
makes sense in whatever context you're using it. That might take some work
in the short run, but doing it might save you a lot of effort in the long
run. And the address book really shouldn't be very awkward to use for
finding single addresses in. What do you find awkward about it? Maybe we
can tell you something to help make it less awkward.
> I already had it set to the highest resolution (1280 X 1024) and large
> fonts.
Large fonts might be part of the problem. You could try turning off the
large fonts and setting the actual font sizes for the various items in
your display properties to larger sizes. If you do that, then you
can still get the font sizes you want but Windows isn't trying to scale
the size of the fonts from the smaller to the larger size, at least
not in the same way, and that may resolve your problem. Many people don't
realize that you don't have to accept the default sizes and that Windows
gives you a lot of control over the individual settings. (MS has hidden
the individual settings a bit in the newer versions of Windows, but they
are still there if you look hard enough.) If you didn't try it already,
try just changing your menu font before you try changing anything else
though. Some fonts behave better than others where scaling is concerned.
> Much smaller and I will go blinder than I already am. I always
> hate switching the resolution as a test because it rearranges all my
> desktop icons from where I know where they are. But I did it anyway. No
> go. By increasing the resolution it made the fonts larger and made the
> fold loss larger. I tried adjusting the various Eudora font sizes, but
> that effects everything but the New Message To list.
Adjusting the Eudora font sizes only changes a couple of very specific
things. The menus are not one of them.
>> Lastly, if you are using a new enough version of Eudora and a new
>> enough version of Windows, you can set menus to scroll rather than
>> wrapping. The setting is WrapMenus=1 and it goes in the [settings]
>> section of eudora.ini.
>>
> I have Windows XP Pro with all the updates and Eudora 5.2.0.9 Paid. That
> should be the latest & greatest
> I tried that WrapMenus=1 but that had no effect on the Recipient List.
Did it work on any of your menus? If not, did you restart Eudora after
making that change? WinXP should be able to do scrolling menus instead of
wrapped menus when told to do so. Maybe you need to change a setting in
Windows too though. I don't use XP, so I can't check whether the setting
works on that particular menu for me.
> I've seen this problem in every version of Eudora I've had. I thought a
> fix might have come along by now. The Recipient List has always been a
> weak point.
As a menu, it shouldn't work any differently than any other menu.
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Katrina