cont1@tse.uucp (Contractor #1 = Tim Horton) (01/03/91)
Is there any way to avoid this? ...
In motif 1.0, if a text widget is popped up, and I set it's string value
to something relatively long, it *slowly* *gracelessly* resizes itself
to accomodate the string. For example, a scrolled text widget will go
through the string value from top to bottom, figuring out the number of
lines and the size of each line, and after *each* line it resets/redraws
the scrollbars (or rather, the scrolling widget around the text widget
gets a resize notification from the text widget after each line is processed,
causing the scrollbars to be reset/redrawn each time). Anyways...
THIS IS RIDICULOUS. From time to time I have a 400 line chunk of text to
stuff in. The behavior looks ridiculous, it takes a *minute* or so, and
meanwhile the application is basically hung. The code:
XmTextSetString(myTextWidget, bigString); /* wow! */
Does this seem slightly bizarre to anyone else but me? Is it time for me
to turn in my .Xdefaults, for good? Is there really a higher bitplane?
When you can't have X anymore, is there anything left to life?
For these and other answers, thanks in advance,
tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu
(alias cont1@tse.uucp)lorensen@dwaskill.crd.ge.com (william e lorensen) (01/04/91)
In article <1991Jan3.022240.13828@tse.uucp> cont1@tse.uucp (Contractor #1 = Tim Horton) writes:
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Is there any way to avoid this? ...
In motif 1.0, if a text widget is popped up, and I set it's string value
to something relatively long, it *slowly* *gracelessly* resizes itself
to accomodate the string. For example, a scrolled text widget will go
through the string value from top to bottom, figuring out the number of
lines and the size of each line, and after *each* line it resets/redraws
the scrollbars (or rather, the scrolling widget around the text widget
gets a resize notification from the text widget after each line is processed,
causing the scrollbars to be reset/redrawn each time). Anyways...
THIS IS RIDICULOUS. From time to time I have a 400 line chunk of text to
stuff in. The behavior looks ridiculous, it takes a *minute* or so, and
meanwhile the application is basically hung. The code:
XmTextSetString(myTextWidget, bigString); /* wow! */
Does this seem slightly bizarre to anyone else but me? Is it time for me
to turn in my .Xdefaults, for good? Is there really a higher bitplane?
When you can't have X anymore, is there anything left to life?
For these and other answers, thanks in advance,
tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu
(alias cont1@tse.uucp)
Try:
XtUnManageChild (myTextWidget);
XmTextSetString(myTextWidget, bigString); /* wow! */
XtManageChild (myTextWidget);
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