I have an application that uses a XmFileSelectionBox. It has the nasty habit of making the directory selection list very wide while making the file selection list very narrow. A hack was put in that places a file called "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.dat" in the current directory forcing the file list widget to become wide enough to accomodate it.
I was told to fix this problem properly, but I'm not sure how to do this.

Another thing I'm noticing that I don't understand is that in the file selection list, the absolute path is listed (directory plus filename, i.e. /home/me/data/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.dat instead of simply zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.dat.) How do I change this behavior?

Thanks in advance