ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt) (10/17/89)
I am trying to implement a CUA-style application panel using the HP widgets. (These seem to be cosmetically what I want.) I need in this order, going down the screen: - optional titlebar - horizontal menubar, each item leading to a pulldown possibly leading to popups - two-way-scrolled application space - optional function key area Although the HP widgets are apparently meant for CUA, they do not seem to be directly applicable. The basic Panel widget supports a titlebar, menu, and application workspace but nothing else, i.e. no function key area. There is no pulldown menu manager. There is no menu manager or layout widget which gives the correct behaviour for the menu bar and function key areas (basically maximum columns minimum rows, but always column-aligned - this is not quite what RowCol provides). I have come up with the following scheme: menubar: a RowCol widget containing MenuButtons leading to Cascades of more MenuButtons application workspace: a VPane containing a BulletinBoard for the real application stuff and another RowCol of MenuButtons for the optional function key area. My question is: is there a better way to do all this within the standard HP (or other) widget set, or do I really have to go & hack my own? -- Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group ejp@bohra.cpg.oz