Colin Carter wrote:
Hi William III, good to hear from you again.
On Friday 13 May 2005 22:56, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
On Thursday 12 May 2005 22:29, Colin Carter wrote:
[snip... Xt geometry management problems ...] Start here: http://www.linuxforum.net/chinese/doc/motif/guide/MotifProgGuide/en_US/Xli b,_Xt,_and_Motif.html http://www.linuxforum.net/chinese/doc/motif/guide/MotifProgGuide/en_US/Mak ing_Widgets_Visible.html#managing_widgets Here's an Xt Instrinsic FAQ containing lots of interesting factoids: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/Xt-FAQ.html Most discussion I found about geometry management seem to make their way to the window manager (Motif), so here's something about that: http://www.linuxforum.net/chinese/doc/motif/guide/MotifProgGuide/en_US/Man aging_Geometry.html If you are using Motif, this has some examples, that includes one that manages a ton of buttons on an xmRowColumnWidget: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/motifref2/vol6a/Vol6a_html/ch02.html This is part of a FAQ that discusses why Xt widgets can do weird things with size, again it also uses Motif: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motif-faq/part4/section-16.html
I second the motion on Motif, I know 1st hand that the rowColumn widget will do what I think you want, and most of the common desktops (Gnome & KDE) have de-facto Motif support intrinsic.
Thanks for this. I am using KDE. I don't understand your last sentence about 'Motif intrinsics' (in fact I asked about this in my reply). Do you mean support for the developer, or for the user?
From the developer's point of view I thought that Motif routines resolved to X Window routines; which meant that the final executeable relied on just X11 routines. Comment please :-)
Regards, Colin
For the user, i.e. if you write a Motif application, KDE handles it OK at runtime. As for developement support, which is what I *think* you just asked about, everything I needed was installed (by default, I *think*) on this box, SuSE 8.2, 933 MHz PIII, installed about 2 years ago. I might have had to go get some developement files (header & library packages) from a mirror, I unfortunately can't recall. I do Xt/Motif CAD developement as a hobby/sporadic business & this box handles everything AOK. -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!!