michael@.nsc.com (Michael C. Wagnitz) (03/22/91)
I've have tried both UTSL and RTFM, but I'm unable to get an Athena text widget
to properly display text which has tab characters. I have tried both fixed
and proportional width fonts, with no real difference. Unlike an xterm display
(which does it differently, I know...), the Athena text widget seems to display
tabulated text in a random fashion, indenting the first one or two lines of the
text with tabs nearly correctly, but then leaving the remaining lines with less
than the intended indentation.
The following example illustrates the result of feeding text with tab
characters to the widget (using an XtSetValues() call)...
The tabulated example (with three tabs in each line) displays as follows:
Field One Field Two Field Three
-------------- ------------ ----------------
Entry number 1 First element Second element
Entry number 2 First element Second element
Entry number 3 First element Second element
The same data, but with tabs previously converted to spaces, looks normal:
Field One Field Two Field Three
-------------- ------------ ----------------
Entry number 1 First element Second element
Entry number 2 First element Second element
Entry number 3 First element Second element
Obviously, I hoped that the tabulated example would display like the second
one does. A call to XawTextSinkSetTabs() has no effect on the result. (The
widget sources appear to have been doing the SetTabs already, anyway).
If anyone can offer me any suggestions, I would be most greatful. This is
the last major nag left before releasing xmail 1.3, and I'd LOVE to fix it.
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