mdv@comtst.UUCP (Mike Verstegen) (12/11/90)
I'm trying to build a table that looks like this with about 10 rows
of a label plus three columns of data as shown below.
Col1Hdg Col2Hdg Col3Hdg
Row1Label R1C1data R1C2data R1C3data
Row2Label R2C1data R2C2data R2C3data
Row3Label R3C1data R3C2data R3C3data
...
Note that the Row labels and column headings are of differing width
than each other and different than the width of the data.
I've tried the following approaches with varying degrees of success.
- XmForm with each cell attached to the cell above and to the left
using (XmLeftAttachment = XmATTACH_WIDGET, etc.). This seems to be
too "brute force" because there are 44 cells which would take 88
attachments.
- XmRowColumn using XmPACK_COLUMN but since that RowXLabel is much
wider than the data, the table is too wide.
- XmRowColumn with XmNorientation = XmVERTICAL where each item in the
column is another XmHORIZONTAL XmRowColumn containing each row. The
problem with this is that the columns won't line up because the
RowXLabels are of differing width without hardcoding in the XmNwidth
of the RowXLabels by trial and error (seems non-portable, particularly
with respect to font changes).
This seems to be something that has been done before, and after beating
my head against the wall too long, I'll finally ask if someone has a
better solution to this problem.
Configuration: Motif 1.0, X11R3, ISC Unix 2.0.2
Thanks,
Mike
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mdv@domain.com West Palm Beach, FL 33407meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks) (12/12/90)
>From: comtst!mdv@uunet.uu.net (Mike Verstegen) > >I'm trying to build a table that looks like this with about 10 rows >of a label plus three columns of data as shown below. > > Col1Hdg Col2Hdg Col3Hdg >Row1Label R1C1data R1C2data R1C3data >Row2Label R2C1data R2C2data R2C3data >Row3Label R3C1data R3C2data R3C3data >... > >Note that the Row labels and column headings are of differing width >than each other and different than the width of the data. > > How about: XmRowColumn with XmNorientation = XmHORIZONTAL where each item in the RC is another XmVERTICAL XmRowColumn containing each column of information. So the first column would contain a blank label and then each of the RowXLabel labels. The second column would contain Col1Hdg and then RXC1data and so on. This will let you align each column of data however you like yet allow each column to be a different width and even change width if the longest entry changes size. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions. . Scott Meeks Open Software Foundation meeks@osf.org (617) 621-7229
david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) (12/12/90)
meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks) writes: >>From: comtst!mdv@uunet.uu.net (Mike Verstegen) >> >>I'm trying to build a table that looks like this with about 10 rows >>of a label plus three columns of data as shown below. >> >> Col1Hdg Col2Hdg Col3Hdg >>Row1Label R1C1data R1C2data R1C3data >>Row2Label R2C1data R2C2data R2C3data >>Row3Label R3C1data R3C2data R3C3data >>... >> >>Note that the Row labels and column headings are of differing width >>than each other and different than the width of the data. > >How about: > >XmRowColumn with XmNorientation = XmHORIZONTAL where each item in the RC >is another XmVERTICAL XmRowColumn containing each column of information. How about using the Table widget. This is the perfect use. It's got some bugs right now involving geometry management when used with Motif (it does not shrink nicely anymore). Kee claims to be working on it, so I am not ;^) Table can be had from Kee or within the Wcl distribution from expo.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/Wcl1_04.tar.Z ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Smyth david@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov Senior Software Engineer, seismo!cit-vax!jpl-devvax!david X and Object Guru. (818)393-0983 Jet Propulsion Lab, M/S 230-103, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 --------------------------- Quote of the Day: --------------------------- "A Guru is not one who simply knows all the answers. Rather, a Guru is like one who walks among the mountains, and by wandering around abit, can see the horizon through long narrow canyons." -------------------------------------------------------------------------