[comp.windows.x.motif] SUMMARY: scrolling text widgets

arm@sps.com (Annette Myjak) (08/04/90)

Thank you to all the responses concerning the problems I was having with
my text widget going nuts when I tried to create it within a scrollable
widget.

Apparently, a LOT of other folks have been bitten by the same problem.  Seems
that the text widget and  scrollable widget don't want to work together too 
well if one also wishes to implement word wrap.

I tried all the various suggestions about getting the scrollbars to stop
freaking out, but although most of the suggestions for this were successful, 
it was at the expense of word wrap.  In this particular instance, the user 
only has to enter a few paragraphs of text, so I opted to keep word wrapping
and sacrafice scroll bars.  I discovered that you can use the arrow keys to
move through the text window fairly easily, and I decided that although it
wasn't really scrolling, it would suffice in this instance.

thanks much for all the help!

annette
arm@sps.com