ph@concurrent.co.uk (Paul Hamilton) (05/22/91)
If you have a string of text in a label widget, it there a way of getting
it underlined? Figure 20 (A typical set of check buttons) in the Motif
style guide shows an example of underlined text, but I can't seem to
find any mention of how to do it in the Motif documentation.
Any help would be useful.
Cheers
Paul
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------------------------------------------------------------------------meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks) (05/23/91)
Motif doesn't provide any support for underlined text other than underlining the mnemonic in a pushbutton. Probably the easiest way to get underlined text would be use an underlined font. I believe that that was how the illustration was done. However, I would recommend against using underlining for most cases if possible and use a real font change (bold, italic, size or typeface) instead. Underlining is mostly just a kludge held over from the days of the typewriter. Real press operators never used underlining. W. Scott Meeks Open Software Foundation meeks@osf.org (617) 621-7229
achan@sparkle.tdd.sj.nec.com (Amy Chan) (05/24/91)
In article <1024@sl10c.concurrent.co.uk> ph@concurrent.co.uk (Paul Hamilton) writes: >If you have a string of text in a label widget, it there a way of getting >it underlined? Figure 20 (A typical set of check buttons) in the Motif >style guide shows an example of underlined text, but I can't seem to >find any mention of how to do it in the Motif documentation. > What about using a XmDrawingArea or XmDrawnButton widget and call XmStringDrawUnderline() to underline a string? Hope this helps. --- Amy Chan -- Amy Chan | E-Mail: NEC America | INET: achan@tdd.sj.nec.com 110 Rio Robles | UUCP: ...{decwrl,oliveb}!necsun!achan San Jose, CA 95134 |