sharonc@meaddata.com (Sharon Crichton) (01/29/91)
Hello all. I have a situation where I need to display a list of items but just for informational purposes. Users cannot do anything with the items in the list, so I would like to turn off selection. I have tried to fake it out with a scrollable text widget (I need both horizontal and vertical scrolling) by setting all of the resource values (i.e. XmNeditable to false, XmNcursorPositionVisible to false, etc.) But that still did not prevent me from dragging my mouse over the text and having it highlighted. Even though nothing can be done with the text once it is highlighted. So what I would like to do is set the XmNselectionPolicy on my list widget to something like NULL, so that the users cannot select items. If that's not possible, I'd like to know how I can turn off mouse selection/highlighting on a text widget. I'm currently using Motif 1.1 under X11/R4. Thanks in advance to all who would offer help! Sharon Crichton CDS Systems Evolution sharonc@meaddata.com Mead Data Central sharonc%meaddata@uunet.uu.net P.O. Box 933 Dayton, OH 45401 Quoth the Raven, "Eat my shorts!"
meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks) (01/29/91)
>From: meaddata!sharonc@uunet.uu.net (Sharon Crichton) > >Hello all. I have a situation where I need to display a list of >items but just for informational purposes. Users cannot do anything >with the items in the list, so I would like to turn off selection. The easiest way to do this is to use XtSetSensitive to set the List widget insensitive. This has no visual effect in 1.1 but it does prevent the user from making selections, though the application can still use the API to make selections from the list. If you have any questions, please ask. W. Scott Meeks | We must live with the fact, true throughout recorded Open Software Foundation | history, that our artifacts are sometimes flawed and meeks@osf.org | cause us to die in novel and unexpected ways, and we (617) 621-7229 | can only do our human best to minimize the problems.
achan@sparkle.nec.com (Amy Chan) (01/30/91)
In article <2610@meaddata.meaddata.com> sharonc%meaddata@uunet.uu.net writes: >Hello all. I have a situation where I need to display a list of >items but just for informational purposes. Users cannot do anything >with the items in the list, so I would like to turn off selection. >I have tried to fake it out with a scrollable text widget (I need >both horizontal and vertical scrolling) by setting all of the >resource values (i.e. XmNeditable to false, XmNcursorPositionVisible >to false, etc.) But that still did not prevent me from dragging my >mouse over the text and having it highlighted. Even though nothing >can be done with the text once it is highlighted. > >So what I would like to do is set the XmNselectionPolicy on my >list widget to something like NULL, so that the users cannot select >items. If that's not possible, I'd like to know how I can turn >off mouse selection/highlighting on a text widget. > >I'm currently using Motif 1.1 under X11/R4. > If you remove all the existing translations of the list widget by using XtUninstallTranslations(), users will not be able to do anything with the items in the list. Hope this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amy Chan NEC America, Inc., San Jose, CA achan@tdd.sj.nec.com
tomt@maui.coral.com (Tom Tulinsky) (01/30/91)
) Hello all. I have a situation where I need to display a list of
) items but just for informational purposes. Users cannot do anything
) with the items in the list, so I would like to turn off selection.
Are you sure you want to turn off selection? The use might want to
copy and paste items from the list to another window, say into a
document.
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