Can a mel textfield not be wider than 100 pixels?

[Anonymous]

I keep trying to specify a wide textfield for entering a file name, but they always show up no more than 100 pixels wide. 😞

[stuzzz]

hello,

I can see a "witdh" flag for the textField command in the DOC ... have you tried?

cmds.textField("mynamewidget", edit=True, w=100)

[Anonymous]

Well sort of - I am setting that width field when I create the text field, not editing an existing one.

[stuzzz]

if you force by editing, nothing happens?

[jmreinhart · Accepted solution]

It's possible that the layout you are using is making the textfield get scaled down to 100 pixels.

[Anonymous]

I feel like an idiot - it wasn't this exactly, but once I read this I realized my mistake.  I was setting the  column widths in the layout but not the actual text box! 

Thank you to every one who replied!