[comp.windows.x] Athena Viewport: Can it be realized smaller than its child?

max@spam.uchicago.edu (08/05/90)

I want the Athena Viewport widget to be realized smaller than its child:
thus I want it begin life with a scrollbar and most of its child obscured.
This is important to me because the child I have in mind (a modified 
Athena List widget) needs a lot of time to paint each of the list elements
and I'd like to do that "lazily", that is, when it is absolutely necessary
for them to become visible.  I'm inclined to make a new version of the 
viewport widget.  Is there a better way?

Thanks for any help,

Donald Ziff (Max)         Center for Information and Language Studies
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converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse) (08/06/90)

> I want the Athena Viewport widget to be realized smaller than its child:
> thus I want it begin life with a scrollbar and most of its child obscured.
> This is important to me because the child I have in mind (a modified 
> Athena List widget) needs a lot of time to paint each of the list elements
> and I'd like to do that "lazily", that is, when it is absolutely necessary
> for them to become visible. 

Take a look at the mechanism that xman presents to the user for selecting
manual pages.  


Donna Converse