I created a bottom toolbar, put any amount of icons in it, and when I use the open icon on the built-in standard toolbar, the find-file dialog box now has a bottom toolbar as well. And if you make a left or right toolbar or _even a top toolbar,_ the find-file dialog comes up with the same toolbars that you have defined. It is inheriting them, I guess. The standard built-in toolbar at the top is the default toolbar, and it does not show up in a find-file dialog. I'm asking if this is by design or just something wasn't looked at closely? By happenstance, I duplicated the default menu with different icons as a new bottom toolbar for experimenting making icons. The problem then is that from within the find-file dialog on the new bottom-toolbar you can press the open button, and open another copy of the find-file dialog, then, since it has an open button on it's bottom toolbar, you can open a third copy of the find-file dialog within that, and I suppose you can keep doing that... If this was an intentional part of the design, under what circumstances would it be desirable to have toolbars inside a find-file dialog? And if it is intentional, I would like to report a bug, that when closing the third find-file dialog, the second find-file dialog no longer displays your list of files on disk, it displays the contents of one of your buffers, and then when closing the second find-file dialog box, the original find-file dialog box displays the contents of a different buffer. Like it is blindly executing a last-buffer command or when closing the buffer that has the list of files, it has to select a different buffer for the previous find-file dialog? A sense of impending doom and specters of imminent crashes crept over me, and I closed all find-file dialog boxes and started a new copy of XEmacs. How can I specify where a toolbar should show up? a specifier, if this is a dialog box, don't display? a tag predicate or a locale in a specifier? Can a locale be anywhere-but-dialog-boxes? On the main (default) toolbar, I can click [open] to start a find-file dialog box, and then click the [open] button again and open a second find-file dialog box. Do we ever need more than one find-file dialog open at a time? If not, then a test in find-file dialog to see if it is already open would be a better place to prevent 2 open at once? Or simply gray-out the open button when it is in use? Steve Mitchell Below are the commands I was using to create the toolbar: ;--- first make a blank toolbar structure (setq text-icons-toolbar (make-toolbar-specifier nil)) ;--- define buttons to go on the toolbar (setq text-icon-open (toolbar-make-button-list "Open")) (setq text-icon-dired (toolbar-make-button-list "Dired")) (setq text-icon-save (toolbar-make-button-list "Save")) ;---add buttons to the new toolbar (set-specifier text-icons-toolbar (cons (current-buffer) (toolbar-add-item (specifier-instance text-icons-toolbar)[text-icon-open toolbar-open t "Open a file"]))) (set-specifier text-icons-toolbar (cons 'global (toolbar-add-item (specifier-instance text-icons-toolbar)[text-icon-dired toolbar-dired t "Edit a directory"]))) (set-specifier text-icons-toolbar (cons 'global (toolbar-add-item (specifier-instance text-icons-toolbar)[text-icon-save toolbar-save t "Save buffer"] ))) ;--- copy text-icons-toolbar to bottom-toolbar (copy-specifier text-icons-toolbar top-toolbar) ;--- next 2 lines have to both be run to make the toolbar visible (set-specifier top-toolbar-visible-p t) ; make the toolbar visible (set-specifier top-toolbar-width 28 ) ; set the height of the toolbar to (non zero) pixels ;--- set the border width, ;---- i.e. the border around the outside of all the icons as a group, but not between them (set-specifier top-toolbar-border-width 4) ; set the border width in pixels _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta