ta_k@maths.su.oz.au (Katya Ta) (04/17/91)
Hi,
It seems I wasn't clear enough with my previous question. Firstly I'm
using the Athena Widget set.
What I'm trying to write is an interface to TeX. An application was
written for the PC (not in X), which allows the user to choose the style of
form (eg. letter, memo, fax etc.) he (or she) wishes to use. The main window
appropriately changes. For example when in letter format the fields in the
letter format are:-
- name
- address
- greeting
- closing
- another name field
- annotations
in memo style:-
- to
- from
- subject
- annotations
and in fax style:-
- to
- fax. no
- from
- phone
The user simply has to fill in the fields and when the appropriate choice
from the menu is chosen the user input is converted to TeX (ie. the user does not
have to know TeX to do this). The main body of all styles is entered with a separate
window (process) which will be fork'ed (in the PC it was spawn'ed) in which there
is an editor (vi or whatever).
The idea is to get the main window area to change layout when a different form
style is chosen. What I want to know is the best :) way to change the widgets in the main
window area.
I hope this is somewhat clearer than the previous post.
Thanks a lot
Katya
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