Forums Bug Reports $input's m switch and size

When using $input with the m switch, the size of the dialog isn't made according to the parameters but rather has a default size (horizontally), it's impossible to read the whole content of what is inside the dropdown combo.

Tested on the 7.24 beta.

I wouldn't call this a bug, since it's clear that this feature was not implemented to resize at all when using combo boxes (the logic simply isn't coded in). That said, given that $input resizes for text, mIRC should probably add the ability to resize combo boxes for consistency.

Oops, I missed the 'the logic isn't coded in' forum

Isn't that the feature request forum?

I see this more as a bug because it's something that should have been there in the first place, I doubt the behavior is on purpose, it's probably just a rare enough case that hasn't been tested.

Why do you doubt that it is on purpose? The combo box is quite clearly a static field that is not being resized. Whether Khaled was aware of the length limitation or not, it was designed to work this way. My guess is, he is aware that there are long line limitations to such a design, but decided not to implement resizability for simplicity's sake. He likely knows about this because this is not the first non-resizable UI element in mIRC (see below), and there seems to be a conscious decision to keep these UI elements simple until someone asks for more functionality.

You want extra behaviour for mIRC to resize the combo box, similar to Change #2 in 7.22 which added resizing to Channel Central (see versions.txt). Note that change #2 was a feature suggestion, not a bug report. It was not a bug that the channel central could previously not be resized, it was just a design choice-- a poor one in retrospect, but a choice nonetheless.