Monitor: output path list gets in the way

[nrusch]

If there are too many output paths added to a job, the popup menus for copying/browsing/opening will actually obscure their parent menus, making it impossible to select other options.
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I would like to request 2 changes to the menus:

1. Make them scrollable, rather than multi-column, when the list of output paths cannot fit on the screen
2. Truncate the output paths to a reasonable length, from the front (so as much of the end as possible is preserved).

Thanks

[rrussell]

In Deadline 7, we are capping the menu item count at 50 output paths (Qt doesn’t support scrollable menus out of the box).

We can also add a wishlist item to truncate the length to a certain number of characters.

Cheers,
Ryan

[nrusch]

In Deadline 7, we are capping the menu item count at 50 output paths (Qt doesn’t support scrollable menus out of the box).

You can set the “menu-scrollable” stylesheet property on the QMenu class to make them all scrollable.

menu.setStyleSheet("QMenu { menu-scrollable: 1; }")

I would consider this preferable to truncating the list of output paths.

[rrussell]

Now how the heck did that not come up in any of our searches!?

Thanks for sharing this!

Cheers,
Ryan

[nrusch]

Heh… I don’t remember where I picked it up originally, but I’ve definitely used it myself.

[rrussell]

Works like a charm! We’ll do this in v7 and remove the cap of 50.

Thanks again!
Ryan