[comp.windows.x] Dynamic spreadsheet widget

carlson@aftac.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) (07/12/88)

I am working on an application which needs a simple spreadsheet or table.
The rows and colums will adjust size automatically depending on what
is typed in or deleted.

After looking through the Athena Widgets (Xaw) and HP Widgets (Xhpw),
I decided to use XwrowColWidgetClass from Xhpw.  I created a bunch of text
widgets (XwtexteditWidgetClass) in 2 rows by 5 columns.  The text
widgets can already grow to fit the text in them.  My problems are:

	(1)  The text widgets don't shrink if I delete text.
		(When the mouse leaves the widget &
			# new char < # old char,
			do a resize)
	(2)  The text widgets in a column aren't the same width.
	(3)  The text widgets in a row aren't the same height.

Before I start developing subclasses of Xwtextedit and XwrowCol,
are there widget classes available to do what I want?  In any
toolkit (CLUE  Andrew)?

Hurry, I'll be working on it today :-).

John Carlson
carlson@aftac.tis.llnl.gov