rusty@velveeta.berkeley.edu (03/23/88)
Supposing I'm writing an application that wants to be able to display a single line of text, and this text can be arbitrarily long, so I'd like a horizontal scroll bar below it. Clicking on buttons can change this displayed text. What's the best way to do this? What widgets and stuff should I use? -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@cartan.berkeley.edu ucbvax!cartan!rusty
shipley@web5a.berkeley.edu (Peter Shipley) (05/17/88)
How does a toolkit program iconify itself?
Currently I call the funtion:
static void
closewin()
{
XWMHints xwmh;
extern Display *disp;
extern Widget toplevel;
xwmh.flags = StateHint;
xwmh.initial_state = IconicState;
XSetWMHints(disp, XtWindow(toplevel), &xwmh);
XFlush(disp);
return;
}
This seems to have no effect [yes I have a window manger running],
is there a toolkit call that will do this for me?
Pete Shipley:
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Spelling corections: /dev/null Quote: "Anger is an energy"RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (05/17/88)
Date: 17 May 88 07:26:32 GMT
From: agate!web5a.berkeley.edu!shipley@presto.ig.com (Peter Shipley)
This seems to have no effect [yes I have a window manger running],
But you don't say which window manager. For example, uwm as shipped
in V11R2 did not conform to all of the conventions in the IC3M. And,
in fact, this is an area still under active discussion.swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (05/17/88)
Date: 17 May 88 07:26:32 GMT
From: agate!web5a.berkeley.edu!shipley@presto.ig.com (Peter Shipley)
How does a toolkit program iconify itself?
[code omitted]
This seems to have no effect [yes I have a window manger running],
is there a toolkit call that will do this for me?
There is a much-better-than-even chance that whatever window manager
you are running doesn't support this function yet. None of the wm's
in X11R2 do so, and in fact the conventions for how they should do
so are still under discussion.
When the conventions are agreed upon, the Shell widget will support them
and XtSetValues, or a variant, on a Shell widget is a likely interface.kit@athena.mit.edu (Chris D. Peterson) (05/18/88)
To Iconify a window from an application you need to tell the window manager
that something has happened, or you can think of the window manager hints as
only taking effect when the window is mapped. In either case the solution
to you problem is to unmap and remap the window. It will be remapped iconic.
This seems to be a bit of a brute force method, but it works, any better ideas
out there?
BTW: There is a bug in uwm, and awm that doesn't allow the icon to be moved
via the wm hints, once it has been created (read placed). Take note
all aspiring window manager authors.
Chris Peterson
Project Athena
Systems Development
Net: kit@athena.mit.edu
Phone: (617) 253 - 1326
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Cambridge, MA 02139 rlh2@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh) (05/18/88)
In article <10039@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> shipley@widow.berkeley.edu (Peter Shipley) writes: > >How does a toolkit program iconify itself? > > >Pete Shipley: static void closewin() { Arg args[1]; XtSetArg(args[0], XtNiconic, (XtArgVal)TRUE); XtSetValues(toplevel, (ArgList)1); } This sets the `iconic' resource of the Shell part of the top level to TRUE. To de-iconify set it to FALSE. Brilliant, eh? Richard -- Richard Hesketh: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk | "Widget programmers do it --- | with class and use a Computing Lab., University of Kent at Canterbury, | little inheritance" Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, England. |
guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) (05/19/88)
In article <4992@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) writes: >>How does a toolkit program iconify itself? > >static void >closewin() >[...] OK, but I object to the name 'closewin'. In my opinion, 'closing' a window destroys it permanently; 'iconifying' a window leave an icon around from which it can be restored exactly. Supporting evidence: the 'close' buttons on xmh, for example. Also, 'closing' is the application's task, while 'iconifying' is mostly done by the window manager (although there are certainly cases where applications want to explicitly (de)iconify themselves under certain circumstances). Mind you, I don't really mind how you call your functions, but I do object to two different meanings assigned to the notion of closing a window. We need to set this straight. What do *you* think? -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net
jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard) (05/26/88)
>BTW: There is a bug in uwm, and awm that doesn't allow the icon to be moved > via the wm hints, once it has been created (read placed). Take note This has been fixed in awm. I didn't have time to get all the hint/prop change stuff into the last beta release, sorry. Jordan
pam@hpiacla.HP.COM (Pam Munsch) (05/28/88)
Can anyone tell me how to figure out the current state (icon or normal) of an X Toolkit window (ie. TopLevel Shell widget) or an X window? Thank you. Pam Munsch Industrial Applications Center Hewlett-Packard
vet@anumb.UUCP (V.E.Tavernini) (06/30/88)
I want to be able to make topLevelShells, created using XtCreateApplicationShell (and the one originally returned by XtInitialize), visible and invisible at will. I've tried using XtMapWidget/XtUnmapWidget and XtManageChildren/XtUnmanageChildren in different combinations (and with and w/o the window manager working), but they don't seem to work. XtUnmapWidget makes the topLevelShell go away but it doesn't get reappear with I call XtMapWidget or XtManageChildren. XtUnmanageChildren doesn't seem to do anything, which is odd since it supposedly calls XtUnmapWidget. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks, Victor Tavernini ihnp4!mvuxi!vet AT&T Bell Labs Andover, MA