Re: lynx-dev Re: forms-option bug report: novice/advanced mode...

[Leonid Pauzner]

>      * From: Sinan Kaan Yerli <address@hidden>
>      _________________________________________________________________
> (10/09/1998 16:08) Leonid Pauzner:
>>In forms-based options menu switching of user mode
>>from Novice to Intermediate or Advanced
>>will not remove statusline near the bottom forever
>>until I repaint screen with Ctrl-W...
> I don't see this on [dev.25]+your patch (on solaris machine). I tried
> all possible combination of user modes switched from one to another and
> the statusline is always recovered.
> The only thing different on novice with partial_display on was that the
> page spills over the statusline but then recovers when the loading
> finishes.

the problem was a side effect of the fact that screen size was not changed
(actually, we lost two lines if scroll page in Novice mode).
Fixed by looking into old-style stuff:


diff -u old/lyoption.c ./lyoption.c
--- old/lyoption.c      Wed Sep  9 12:05:50 1998
+++ ./lyoption.c        Fri Sep 11 18:47:00 1998
@@ -3489,6 +3489,11 @@
        /* User Mode: Default: */
        if (!strcmp(data[i].tag, user_mode_string)) {
            user_mode = GetOptValues(user_mode_values, data[i].value);
+               if (user_mode == NOVICE_MODE) {
+                   display_lines = (LYlines - 4);
+               } else {
+                   display_lines = LYlines-2;
+               }
        }

        /* Verbose Images: ON/OFF */
@@ -3683,7 +3688,7 @@
     StrAllocCopy(*newfile, any_filename);
     LYforce_no_cache = TRUE;

-    BeginInternalPage(fp0, OPTIONS_TITLE, OPTIONS_HELP);
+    BeginInternalPage(fp0, OPTIONS_TITLE, NULL); /* help already built-in */

     /*
      * I do C, not HTML.  Feel free to pretty this up.