koff@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Caroline Koff) (08/15/90)
I have a question about how to go about setting up the following layout of XmStrings within a dialog box: ---------------------------------------------------------- | | | 0: 00000000 1: 00000000 2: 00000000 3: 00000000 | | 4: 00000000 5: 00000000 6: 00000000 7: 00000000 | | 8: 00000000 9: 00000000 10: 00000000 11: 00000000 | | 12: 00000000 13: 00000000 14: 00000000 15: 00000000 | | | | ------------ | | | Close | | | ------------ | | | ---------------------------------------------------------- Items like "1:" are labels, and the items like "00000000" are values that can change in width. Their types are XmStrings. The box around the word "Close" indicates a button labeled close. Here is one solution: - create a rowColumn widget with the form of the dialog box as its parent. I'll call this widget "rcm". - create the individual labels and values with rcm as their parent. - do the following resource settings: rcm*orientation: horizontal rcm*packing: pack_column rcm*numColumns: 4 This solution almost works. It creates something like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 0: 00000000 1: 00000000 2: 00000000 3: 00000000 | | 4: 00000000 5: 00000000 6: 00000000 7: 00000000 | | 8: 00000000 9: 00000000 10: 00000000 11: 00000000 | | 12: 00000000 13: 00000000 14: 00000000 15: 00000000 | | | | ------------ | | | Close | | | ------------ | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice that there are huge gaps between the labels like "0:" and the values like "00000000". This is because XmNpacking set to pack_column will resize the size of each child to the largest child's size. (Please see the man page of XmRowColumn for a better explanation.) Therefore in this case, all of the "0:" and "1:" type of label sizes are as big/wide as the width of "00000000". How can I make this dialog box look more like what I drew at the beginning of this message? Use a rowColumn widget for each of the eight columns? Don't use rowColumn at all and stick to forms and/or bulletins? I would appreciate any ideas! Thanks! --Caroline Koff Software Engineering Systems Division, HP Ft. Collins. koff@hpfclp.sde.hp.com
david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) (09/21/90)
Easy: don't use the XmRowColumn, use the Table widget.
Available with the Widget Creation Library distribution.
You can get Wcl from devvax.jpl.nasa.gov in /pub or
from expo.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib. The name of the
compressed tar file in both cases is the same:
Wc1_03.tar.Z
This version REQUIRES that clients be linked against
an ANSI C library (Wcl uses strstr). The next version
due out in October does not make this requirement.
The Wcl distribution includes several examples of
using Table widgets for complex matrix layouts.
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