[comp.windows.x] Displaying output in a widget

yadav@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Ashish Yadav) (08/18/89)

Hi folks,
	I have been wondering how to display my output in a widget. Is there
a way of redirecting the output to the widget. I have access to both the
Athena and HP widget sets. Please let me know if you have an pointers or a
program that will help me through this problem.

thanx a lot folks.
Ash.
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kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) (08/18/89)

>	I have been wondering how to display my output in a widget.

What kind of output?  You can use the text or label widget for text.  If you
want to draw into widget with Xlib graphic calls then you have much more
work ahead of you.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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yadav@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU (Ashish Yadav) (08/19/89)

The output would be something like the output from a system call. I am 
presently working on a graphicall shell interface. I would like to have 
certain windows to display the output from system(ls -C). And also 
a window where on could enter the filename.
thanx a lot for the reply. Also I have been wondering for a while if
there was some way I cold get involved in the X consortium for 
development etc. I would appreciate if you couls shed some light on this matter
too.

thanx again
Ash.

kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) (08/19/89)

> The output would be something like the output from a system call. I am 
> presently working on a graphicall shell interface. I would like to have 
> certain windows to display the output from system(ls -C). And also 
> a window where on could enter the filename.

Take a look at the Text, Label and Dialog widgets in the Athena Widget set.

> Also I have been wondering for a while if there was some way I could get
> involved in the X consortium for  development etc.

For information on joining the X Consortium and all that doing do would gain
you send a mail message to rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Bob Scheifler).


						Chris