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Subject: 126)  TOPIC: ICONS

Iconification/de-iconification is a co-operative process between a client and
a window manager.  The relevant standards are set by ICCCM.  Mwm is ICCCM
compliant.  The toplevel (non-override-redirect) windows of an application may
be in three states: WithdrawnState (neither the window nor icon visible),
NormalState (the window visible) or IconicState (the icon window or pixmap
visible).  This information is contained in the WM_STATE property but ordinary
clients are not supposed to look at that (its values have not yet been
standardised).  Movement between the three states is standardised by ICCCM.

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Subject: 127)  How can I keep track of changes to iconic/normal window state?

Answer: You can look at the WM_STATE property, but this breaks ICCCM
guidelines.  ICCCM compliant window managers will map windows in changing them
to normal state and unmap them in changing them to iconic state. Look for
StructureNotify events and check the event type:

        XtAddEventHandler (toplevel_widget,
                        StructureNotifyMask,
                        False,
                        StateWatcher,
                        (Opaque) NULL);
        ....
        void StateWatcher (w, unused, event)
        Widget w;
        caddr_t unused;
        XEvent *event;
        {
                if (event->type == MapNotify)
                        printf ("normal\n");
                else if (event->type == UnmapNotify)
                        printf ("iconified\n");
                else    printf ("other event\n");
        }


If you insist on looking at WM_STATE, here is some code (from Ken Sall) to do
it:

        /*
        ------------------------------------------------------------------
        Try a function such as CheckWinMgrState below which returns one of
        IconicState | NormalState | WithdrawnState | NULL :
        ------------------------------------------------------------------
        */
        #define WM_STATE_ELEMENTS 1

        unsigned long *CheckWinMgrState (dpy, window)
        Display *dpy;
        Window window;
        {
          unsigned long *property = NULL;
          unsigned long nitems;
          unsigned long leftover;
          Atom xa_WM_STATE, actual_type;
          int actual_format;
          int status;

            xa_WM_STATE = XInternAtom (dpy, "WM_STATE", False);

            status = XGetWindowProperty (dpy, window,
                          xa_WM_STATE, 0L, WM_STATE_ELEMENTS,
                          False, xa_WM_STATE, &actual_type, &actual_format,
                          &nitems, &leftover, (unsigned char **)&property);

            if ( ! ((status == Success) &&
                        (actual_type == xa_WM_STATE) &&
                        (nitems == WM_STATE_ELEMENTS)))
                {
                if (property)
                    {
                    XFree ((char *)property);
                    property = NULL;
                    }
                }
            return (property);
        } /* end CheckWinMgrState */


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Subject: 128)  How can I check if my application has come up iconic?  I want
to delay initialisation code and other processing.

Answer: Use XtGetValues and check for the XmNinitialState value of the
toplevel shell just before XtMainLoop. -- IconicState is iconic, NormalState
is not iconic.




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Subject: 129)  How can I start my application in iconic state?

Answer: From the command line

        application -iconic

Using the resource mechanism, set the resource XmNinitialState to IconicState
of the toplevel shell widget (the one returned from XtInitialise).

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Subject: 130)  How can an application iconify itself?

Answer: In R4 and later, use the call XIconifyWindow.

For R3, send an event to the root window with a type of WM_CHANGE_STATE and
data IconicState.

        void
        IconifyMe (dpy, win)
        Display *dpy;
        Window win;     /* toplevel window to iconify */
        {
                Atom xa_WM_CHANGE_STATE;
                XClientMessageEvent ev;

                xa_WM_CHANGE_STATE = XInternAtom (dpy,
                                        "WM_CHANGE_STATE", False);

                ev.type = ClientMessage;
                ev.display = dpy;
                ev.message_type = xa_WM_CHANGE_STATE;
                ev.format = 32;
                ev.data.l[0] = IconicState;
                ev.window = win;

                XSendEvent (dpy,
                        RootWindow (dpy, DefaultScreen(dpy)),
                        True,
                        (SubstructureRedirectMask | SubstructureNotifyMask),
                        &ev);
                XFlush (dpy);
        }


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Subject: 131)  How can an application de-iconify itself?

Answer: XMapWindow (XtDisplay (toplevel_widget), XtWindow (toplevel_widget)).

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Subject: 132)  TOPIC: MISCELLANEOUS

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Subject: 133)+ How do I controll the repeat rate on a SUN keyboard ??


Answer:

     [...]

     -ar1 milliseconds
             This option specifies amount of time in milliseconds
             before   which   a   pressed  key  should  begin  to
             autorepeat.

     -ar2 milliseconds
             This option specifies the interval  in  milliseconds
             between autorepeats of pressed keys.

Of course this presumes you're using a server based on the MIT sample server.
submitted by: [e-mail] (Kaleb Keithley)

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Subject: 134)  How can I identify the children of a manager widget?

Answer: XmNnumChildren (number of widgets in array).

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Subject: 135)  How do I tell if a scrolled window's scrollbars are visible?

Answer: Use XtGetValues() to get the scrollbar widget ID's, then use
XtIsManaged() to see if they are managed (visible).

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail]

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Subject: 136)  How can I programatically scroll a XmScrolledWindow in
XmAUTOMATIC mode?

Answer: In Motif 1.2, use XmScrollVisible().  If you're using a scrolled text
or scrolled list combination widget, use XmTextScroll() or XmListSet*()
instead.

The Motif manuals specifically forbid manipulating the scrollbars directly,
but some people have reported success with XmScrollBarSetValues, with the
"notify" parameter set to "True".

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail]

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Subject: 137)  What functions can an application use to change the size or
position of a widget?

Answer: Applications should set the values of the XmNx, XmNy, XmNwidth, and
XmNheight resources.

Note their
children, relying instead on their internal layout algorithms.  If you really
want specific positions, you must use a manager widget that allows them, e.g.,
XmBulletinBoard.

Also note that some manager widgets reject size change requests from their
children when certain resources are set (e.g., XmNresizable on XmForm).
Others allow the the children to resize, but clip the results (e.g.,
XmNallowShellResize on shell widgets).  Make sure you have these resources set
to the policy you want.

Due to bugs, some widgets (third party widgets) do not respond to changes in
their width and height.  Sometimes, you can get them to respond correctly by
unmanaging them, setting the resources, then managing them again.

Under no circumstances should applications use routines like
XtConfigureWidget() or XtResizeWidget().  These routines are reserved for
widget internals and will seriously confuse many widgets.  _ thanks to Ken
Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 138)  What widgets should I use to get the look of push buttons, but
the behaviour of toggle buttons?

Answer:
  Use the XmToggleButton widget, setting XmNindicatorOn to False and
XmNshadowThickness to 2.

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 139)+ How do I obtain the size of a unmanaged shell widget?

Answer: In the code below, use getsize() for widgets which have been managed,
and getsize2() for newly created shell widgets which have not yet been
managed.

getsize2() takes two widget parameters because popup dialogs etc.  _consist_
of two separate widgets - the parent shell and the child bulletin board, form,
whatever.  This important distinction (somewhat glossed over in the Motif
manuals) is the cause of a large number of queries in comp.windows.x.motif.
XmCreate...Dialog() functions return the (bulletin board, form, whatever)
_child_ of the pair, not the parent shell.

getsize2() takes the _shell_ widget as it's first parameter, and the shell's
_child_ (the bulletin board, form, whatever) as it's second.  Thus, if you are
using code like widget = XmCreate...Dialog() to create your popup dialogs, use
code like getsize2(XtParent(widget),widget,&width,&height) to get the width
and height. If you use e.g. XmCreateDialogShell() or XtCreatePopupShell(),
then you are creating the the shell widget and it's child explicitly, and can
just pass them into getsize2() with no problem.

Note: getsize2() calls getsize().

/* getsize(widget,width,height);
 * Widget widget;
 * int *width,*height;
 *
 * returns the width and height of a managed widget */




void getsize(l,w,h) Widget l; int *w,*h; { Dimension w_,h_,b_;

static Arg size_args[] =
  {
  { XmNwidth,0 },
  { XmNheight,0 },
  { XmNborderWidth,0 },
  };

size_args[0].value = (XtArgVal)&w_; size_args[1].value = (XtArgVal)&h_;
size_args[2].value = (XtArgVal)&b_;

XtGetValues(l,size_args,3);

if (w) *w = w_ + b_; if (h) *h = h_ + b_; } /*
getsize2(shell,child,width,height);
 * Widget shell,child;
 * int *width,*height;
 *
 * returns the width, height of an unmanaged shell widget */

void getsize2(p,c,w,h) Widget p,c; int *w,*h; { XtSetMappedWhenManaged(p,0);

XtManageChild(c);

getsize(p,w,h);

XtUnmanageChild(c);

XtSetMappedWhenManaged(p,-1); } submitted by: [ Huw Rogers  Communications
Software Engineer, NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan ] [ Email:
[e-mail]  Fax: [phone]  Tel: [phone] ]

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Subject: 140)  Can I use XtAddTimeOut(), XtAddWorkProc(), and XtAddInput()
with XtAppMainLoop()?

Answer: On many systems, the obsolete XtAdd*() functions are not compatible
with the XtAppMainLoop().  Instead, you should use newer XtAppAddTimeOut(),
XtAppAddWorkProc(), and XtAppAddInput() functions with XtAppMainLoop()

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 141)  Why does XtGetValues() XmNx and XmNwidth return extremely large
values.

Answer: You must use the 16 bit "Dimension" and "Position" data types for your
arguments.  If you use 32 bit integers, some implementations will fill the
remaining 16 bits with invalid data, causing incorrect return values.  The
*Motif Programmer's Manual* and the widget man pages specify the correct data
type for each resource.

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 142)  Can I specify callback functions in resource files?

Answer: To specify callbacks, you must use UIL in addition to or in place of
resource files.  You can, however, specify translations in resource files,
which give you most of the same functionality as callback functions.

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 143)  How do I specify a search path for ".uid" files?  Answer: Use
the UIDPATH environment variable.  It is documented on the MrmOpenHierarchy()
man page.

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Subject: 144)  XtGetValues() on XmNx and XmNy of my top level shell don't
return the correct root window coordinates.  How do I compute these?

Answer: XmNx and XmNy are the coordinates relative to your shell's parent
window, which is usually a window manager's frame window.  To translate to the
root coordinate space, use XtTranslateCoords() or XTranslateCoordinates().

thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 145)  Can I use XmGetPixmap() with widgets that have non-default
visual types?

Answer: If you're using a different depth, use XmGetPixmapByDepth() instead.

 thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail] ----------
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Subject: 146)  How can I determine the item selected in a option menu or a
RadioBox?

Answer: The value of the XmNmenuHistory resource of the XmRowColumn parent is
the widget ID of the last selected item.  It works the same way for all menus
and radio boxes.  thanks to Ken Lee, [e-mail]

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Subject: 147)  What is the matter with Frame in Motif 1.2?

[Last modified: November 92]

Answer: This announcement has been made by OSF:

"IMPORTANT NOTICE

We have discovered two problems in the new 1.2 child alignment resources in
XmFrame. Because some vendors may have committed, or are soon to commit to
field releases of Motif 1.2 and 1.2.1, OSF's options for fixing them are
limited. We are trying to deal with these in a way that does not cause
hardship for application developers who will develop applications against
various point versions of Motif. OSF's future actions for correction are
summarized.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO AND KNOW

1. Mark the following change in your documentation.

On page 1-512 of the OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference, change the descriptions
under XmNchildVerticalAlignment as follows (what follows is the CORRECT
wording to match the current implementation):

XmALIGNMENT_WIDGET_TOP
        Causes the BOTTOM edge of the title area to align
        vertically with the top shadow of the Frame.

XmALIGNMENT_WIDGET_BOTTOM
        Causes the TOP edge of the title area to align
        vertically with the top shadow of the Frame.

2. Note the following limitation on resource converters for Motif 1.2 and
1.2.1 implementations.

The rep types for XmFrame's XmNentryVerticalAlignment resource were
incorrected implemented, which means that converters will not work properly.
The following resource settings will not work from a resource file in 1.2 and
1.2.1:

        *childVerticalAlignment: alignment_baseline_bottom
        *childVerticalAlignment: alignment_baseline_top
        *childVerticalAlignment: alignment_widget_bottom
        *childVerticalAlignment: alignment_widget_top

If you wish to set these values for these resources (note they are new
rces in XmFrame) you will have to set them directly in C or
via uil.

WHAT WE WILL DO

The problem described in note #1 above will not be fixed in the OSF/Motif
implementation until the next MAJOR release of Motif.  At that time we will
correct the documentation and modify the code to match those new descriptions,
but we will preserve the existing enumerated values and their behavior for
backward compatibility for that release.

The fix for the problem described in note #2 will be shipped by OSF in Motif
1.2.2.

SUMMARY

We are sorry for any difficulty this causes Motif users.  If you have any
questions or flames (I suppose I deserve it) please send them directly to me.
We sincerely hope this proactive response is better for our customers than you
having to figure it out yourselves!

Libby


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Subject: 148)  What is IMUG and how do I join it?

Answer: IMUG is the International Motif User Group founded by Quest Windows
Corporation and co-sponsored by FedUNIX.  IMUG is a non-profit organization
working to keep users informed on technical and standards issues, to
strengthen user groups on a local level, to increase communication among users
internationally, and to promote the use of an international conference as a
forum for sharing and learning more about Motif.  You can join it by

 1.  Pay the annual membership fee of $20 USD directly to IMUG.  Contact

     IMUG
     5200 Great America Parkway
     Santa Clara,  CA  95054
     [phone]
     [e-mail]

 2.  Register at the International Motif User Conference, and automatically
     become an IMUG member.

 3.  Donate a pd widget, widget tool or widget builder to the IMUG Widget
     Depository and receive a free one year IMUG membership.


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Subject: 149)  What is the X Professional Organization

[Last modified: JAN 02 1994]

Answer: The X Professional Organization's (XPO) purpose is to provide service
to the X community.  It will serve as an information conduit for professional
users of X.  XPO will participate in X activities, and help keep its members
informed on X related issues.

http://
In addition to the communication that professional organizations offer, XPO
provides these other benefits to members:

    * subscription to the The X Resource, a quarterly publication
      by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.,

    * discounts on X related products, 20% off most new books

*** For a sample issue of the newsletter,
*** email  [e-mail] and include your surface address:

    * the XPO quarterly newsletter featuring:
         o highlights of conference activities,
         o new product information,
         o articles highlighting the latest innovations in X,
         o feedback from developers and users of X,
         o calendar of activities,
         o forum for X professionals to interact and learn,
         o and much more...

Membership Information:
Annual pricing information in US dollars.

Associate:  Quarterly newsletter
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Special: Regular + The X Resource  supplemental issues

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Contact:  X Professional Organization, Post Office Box 78, Beltsville,
Maryland, 20704  USA

phone: (301) 681 - 2230
fax:   (410) 465 - 9918, email: [e-mail]

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Subject: 150)  How do I set the title of a top level window?

[Last modified: September 92]

Answer: Set XmNtitle (and optionally XmNtitleEncoding) for TopLevelShells.
(Note that this is of type String rather than XmStrin.) Ypu can also set
XmNiconName if you want its icon to show this title.  For XmDialogShells, set
the XmNdialogTitle of its immediate child, assuming it's a BulletinBoard
subclass.  These can also be set in resource files.


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Subject: 151)  Can I use editres with Motif?
[Last modified: January 93]

Answer: It isn't built in to Motif (at 1.2.0), but you can do this in your
application

    extern void _XEditResCheckMessages();
    ...
    XtAddEventHandler(shell_widget, (EventMask)0, True,
                        _XEditResCheckMessages, NULL);

once for each shell widget that you want to react to the "click to select
client" protocol.  Then link your client with the R5 libXmu.

David Brooks, OSF

From Marc Quinton ([e-mail]):

With X11R4 see the Editres package which is a port of the X11R5 Editres
protocol and client. You can find it at :

 ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr(143.196.9.83):/pub/dist/Editres.tar.Z

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Subject: 152)  How can I put decorations on transient windows using olwm?

Answer: From Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin <[e-mail]>

/**********************************************************************
** WindowDecorations.c
**
** Manages window decorations under the OpenLook window manager (OLWM).
**
** Adapted from a C++ program posted to comp.windows.x.motif by:
**
**    +--------------------------------------------------------------+
**    | Ron Edmark                          User Interface Group     |
**    | Tel:        [phone] x282     Integrated Systems, Inc. |
**    | Internet:   [e-mail]          3260 Jay St.             |
**    | Voice mail: [phone] x282     Santa Clara, CA 95054    |
**    +--------------------------------------------------------------+
***********************************************************************/

#include <X11/X.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <X11/Protocols.h>
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include <Xm/AtomMgr.h>

/*
** Decorations for OpenLook:
** The caller can OR different mask options to change the frame decoration.
*/
#define OLWM_Header     (long)(1<<0)
#define OLWM_Resize     (long)(1<<1)
#define OLWM_Close      (long)(1<<2)

/*
** Prototypes
*/
static void InstallOLWMAtoms  (Widget w);
static void AddOLWMDialogFrame(Widget widget, long decorationMask);


/*
** Global variables
*/
static Atom AtomWinAttr;
static Atom AtomWTOther;
static Atom AtomDecor;
static Atom AtomResize;
static Atom AtomHeader;
static Atom AtomClose;
static int  not_installed_yet = TRUE;


static void InstallOLWMAtoms(Widget w)
{
        AtomWinAttr = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w), "_OL_WIN_ATTR" ,    FALSE);
        AtomWTOther = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w), "_OL_WT_OTHER",     FALSE);
        AtomDecor   = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w), "_OL_DECOR_ADD",    FALSE);
        AtomResize  = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w), "_OL_DECOR_RESIZE", FALSE);
        AtomHeader  = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w), "_OL_DECOR_HEADER", FALSE);
        AtomClose   = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w), "_OL_DECOR_CLOSE",  FALSE);

        not_installed_yet = FALSE;
}

static void AddOLWMDialogFrame(Widget widget, long decorationMask)
{
        Atom   winAttrs[2];
        Atom   winDecor[3];
        Widget shell = widget;
        Window win;
        int    numberOfDecorations = 0;

        /*
        ** Make sure atoms for OpenLook are installed only once
        */
        if (not_installed_yet) InstallOLWMAtoms(widget);

        while (!XtIsShell(shell)) shell = XtParent(shell);

        win = XtWindow(shell);

        /*
        ** Tell Open Look that our window is not one of the standard OLWM window        ** types. See OLIT Widget Set Programmer's Guide pp.70-73.
        */

        winAttrs[0] = AtomWTOther;

        XChangeProperty(XtDisplay(shell),
                        win,
                        AtomWinAttr,
                        XA_ATOM,
                        32,
     ce,
                        (unsigned char*)winAttrs,
                        1);

        /*
        ** Tell Open Look to add some decorations to our window
        */
        numberOfDecorations = 0;
        if (decorationMask & OLWM_Header)
                winDecor[numberOfDecorations++] = AtomHeader;
        if (decorationMask & OLWM_Resize)
                winDecor[numberOfDecorations++] = AtomResize;
        if (decorationMask & OLWM_Close)
        {
                winDecor[numberOfDecorations++] = AtomClose;

                /*
                ** If the close button is specified, the header must be
                ** specified. If the header bit is not set, set it.
                */
                if (!(decorationMask & OLWM_Header))
                        winDecor[numberOfDecorations++] = AtomHeader;
        }

        XChangeProperty(XtDisplay(shell),
                        win,
                        AtomDecor,
                        XA_ATOM,
                        32,
                        PropModeReplace,
                        (unsigned char*)winDecor,
                        numberOfDecorations);
}


/*
** Example of use of AddOLWMDialogFrame, with a bit of extra stuff
*/
void register_dialog_to_WM(Widget shell, XtCallbackProc Cbk_func)
{
        Atom atom;

        /*
        ** Alias the "Close" item in system menu attached to dialog shell
        ** to the activate callback of "Exit" in the menubar
        */
        if (Cbk_func)
        {
            atom = XmInternAtom(XtDisplay(shell),"WM_DELETE_WINDOW",TRUE);
            XmAddWMProtocolCallback(shell,atom, Cbk_func,NULL);
        }

        /*
        ** If Motif is the window manager, skip OpenLook specific stuff
        */
        if (XmIsMotifWMRunning(shell)) return;

        /*
        ** Register dialog shell to OpenLook.
        **
        ** WARNING: on some systems, adding the "Close" button allows the title
        ** to be properly centered in the title bar. On others, activating
        ** "Close" crashes OpenLook. The reason is not clear yet, but it seems
        ** the first case occurs with OpenWindows 2 while the second occurs with
        ** Openwindows 3. Thus, comment out one of the two following lines as
        ** suitable for your site, and send e-mail to [e-mail] if you
        ** find out what is going on !
        */
        AddOLWMDialogFrame(shell,(OLWM_Header | OLWM_Resize));
/*      AddOLWMDialogFrame(shell,(OLWM_Header | OLWM_Resize | OLWM_Close)); */
}


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Subject: 153)  Why does an augment translation appear to act as replace for
some widgets?  When I use either augment or override translations in
.Xdefaults it seems to act as replace in both Motif 1.0 and 1.1

Answer: By default, the translation table is NULL.  If there is nothing
specified (either in resource file, or in args), the widget's Initialize
finds: Oh, there is NULL in translations, lets use our default ones.  If,
however, the translations have become non-NULL, the default translations are
NOT used at all. Thus, using #augment, #override or a new table has identical
effect: defines the new translations. The only way you can augment/override
Motif's default translations is AFTER Initialize, using XtSetValues.  Note,
however, that Motif managers do play with translation tables as well ... so
that results are not always easy to predict.

From OSF: A number of people have complained about not being able to
augment/override translations from the .Xdefaults.  This is due to the
complexity of the menu system/keyboard traversal and the necessary
translations changes required to support the Motif Style Guide in menus.  It
cannot be fixed in a simple way. Fixing it requires re-design of the
menus/buttons and it is planned to be fixed in 1.2.





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Subject: 154)  How do you "grey" out a widget so that it cannot be activated?

Answer: Use XtSetSensitive(widget, False). Do not set the XmNsensitive
resource directly yourself (by XtSetValues) since the widget may need to talk
to parents first.


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Subject: 155)  Why doesn't the Help callback work on some widgets?

Answer: If you press the help key the help callback of the widget with the
keyboard focus is called (not the one containing the mouse).  You can't get
the help callback of a non-keyboard-selectable widget called. To get `context
sensitive' help on these, you have to find the mouse, associate its position
with a widget and then do the help.

 The X Resource, Issue 6, has an article on implementing context help in
 Motif in this manner, that is, using the mouse position to indicate the
 widget for which context help is desired, as well as using resources to
 specify the help.  Example source code is available at

         ftp.uu.net:/published/oreilly/xresource/helpdemo.tar.Z

 The demo program lets you toggle between using the method described in
 the article and XmTrackingLocate() for comparision purposes.

contributed by: Jay Schmidgall  [e-mail] (author of the article
mentioned above) --



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Subject: 156)  Where can I get a Table widget?

[Last modified: December 92]

Answer: Send email to Kee Hinckley ([e-mail]) asking for a copy of
his table widget.  The Widget Creation Library also has one.  See under Motif
prototyping tools for the contact.

Expert Database Systems, Inc., 377 Rector Place, Suite 3L New York, NY 10280.
Phone: [phone] has a very comprehensive table widget that uses both
motif scrollbars or a "virtual" scrollbar showing a miniature version of the
entire spreadsheet. Allows for different width columns, changing colors in
each cell.  Only one X-Window is used so as to reduce the amount of system
resources used.  Contact Ken Jones email: ken@mr_magoo.sbi.com)


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Subject: 157)  Has anyone done a bar graph widget?
[Last modified: September 92]

Answer: You can fake one by using for each bar a scroll bar or even a label
which changes in size, put inside a container of some kind.

Try the StripChart widget in the Athena widget set. Set the XtNupdate resource
to 0 to keep it from automatically updating.

The comp.windows.x FAQ mentions a bar graph widget.

Expert Database Systems, Inc.  sells a bar graph widget as well as a multi-
line graph with automatic scaling, a 3-D surface graph, and a high/Low graph
with two lines for moving averages.  Contact Ken Jones Expert Database
Systems, Inc., 377 Rector Place, Suite 3L New York, NY 10280.  Phone: (212)
783-6981


The Xtra XWidget library contains a set of widgets that are subclassed from
and compatible with either OSF/Motif or OLIT widgets.  The library includes
widgets that implement the following:

   Spreadsheet
   Bar Graph
   Stacked Bar Graph
   Line Graph
   Pie Chart
   XY Plot
   Hypertext
   Hypertext based Help System
   Entry Form with type checking

Contact Graphical Software Technology at 310-328-9338  ([e-mail]) for
information.

The XRT/graph widget, available for Motif, XView and OLIT, displays X-Y plots,
bar and pie charts, and supports user-feedback, fast updates and PostScript
output. Contact KL Group Inc. at 416-594-1026 ([e-mail])

The product Xmath, made by Integrated Systems Inc. is a product which has
interactive 2d and 3d graphics for bar,strip,line,symbol,
surface,contour,etc... that costs $2500.00 for commercial use and a mere
$250.00 for university use that also has complete numerics capabilities, an
easy to use debugger, a complete high level language, a spreadsheet, a motif
gui access capability, and much more all created on top of motif.

You can either email to [e-mail] or call [phone].

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) provides the following product NetEd: "The
network editor widget is a Motif toolkit conforming widget that applications
aphically in the form of
networks or graphs. The network editor supports interactive or application-
controlled creation and editing of directed graphs or networks."


ACE/gr is an X based XY plotting tool implemented with a point 'n click
paradigm.  A few of its features are:

   * Plots up to 10 graphs with 30 data sets per graph.
   * Data read from files and/or pipes.
   * Graph types XY, log-linear, linear-log, log-log, bar,
        stacked bar charts.

it is available from

        ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu (presently amb4.ccalmr.ogi.edu)

with IP address 129.95.72.34. The XView version (xvgr) will be found in
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.09.tar.Z and the Motif version (xmgr) in
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.09.tar.Z.  Comments, suggestions, bug reports to
[e-mail] (if mail fails, try [e-mail]). Due to
time constraints, replies will be few and far between.



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Subject: 158)  Does anyone know of a source code of a graph widget where you
can add vertices and edges and get an automated updating?

[Last modified: March 93]

Answer: The XUG FAQ in comp.windows.x includes information on graph display
widgets.  There is also an implementation in the Asente/Swick book.

  From Martin Janzen: "You could have a look at DataViews, from V.I.
   Corporation.  This package is used mainly to display a variety of graph
   drawings (eg. bar, line, pie, high/low, and other charts), and to update
   the graphs as information is received from "data sources" such as files,
   processes (through pipes), or devices.

   However, it also provides "node" and "edge" objects which can be used
   when working with network graphs.  The DV-Tools function library
   provides routines which traverse a graph, count visits to each node or
   edge, mark nodes or edges of interest, and so on.  A node or edge object
   can have an associated "geometry object" (such as a symbol or a line),
   which represents that node or edge.

   Drawbacks: There's no automatic positioning algorithm; when you add a
   node or edge, you have to create and position its geometry object
   yourself.  Also, this isn't a set of add-on widgets; you can either have
   DataViews create an X window (ie. a separate shell), or you can create
   your own XmDrawingArea and use DataViews to update its window when
   expose events are received.  Finally, the package is quite expensive,
   and there is a run-time charge.

   The vendor's address is:
     V.I. Corporation,
     47 Pleasant Street,
     Northampton, MA  01060,
            Email: [e-mail], Phone: [phone], Fax:   [phone]

   or

     V.I. Corporation (Europe) Ltd.,
     First Base, Beacontree Plaza,
     Gillette Way,                      Email: [e-mail]
     Reading, Berkshire  RG2 0BP"
   Phone: [phone],      Fax:   [phone]

From Craig Timmerman: Just wanted others to know that there is a third
competitor in what may be come a big market for generic APIs.  The product is
called Open Interface and Neuron Data is the vendor.  Neuron has added some
extra, more complex widgets to their set.  The two most notable are a table
and network widget.  [...] I believe that the network widget got its name from
its ability to display expert system networks that Neuron's AI tools needed.
It would be more aptly named the graph widget.  It can display and manipulate
graphs of various types (trees, directed graphs, etc).  Contact is

        Neuron Data
        156 University Avenue
        Palo Alto,  CA  94301
        [phone]


prism![e-mail]  (RENALDS,ANDREW THEODORE) posted a set of public
domain routines for graph drawing.  Contact him for a later set.

From Ramon Santiago ([e-mail]): HP has released source code
for XmGraph and XmArc, part of the InterWorks library, which does exactly
this. The sources can be obtained by contacting Dave Shaw,
[e-mail]. A few trivial source code changes need to be
made to get these widgets to compile under Motif 1.2.

Free DAG - directed acyclic graph drawing software in motif environment is
available. Please send a note to address below if you want it:

Budak Arpinar, TUBITAK Software Research & Development Center, Ankara,
TURKIYE, E-mail : [e-mail]



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Subject: 159)+ Is there a help system available, such as in Windows 3?  Or any
Motif based hypertext system.

[Last modified: apr 94]

Answer:

HTML Widget from NCSA:

The NCSA Mosaic for X package contains a html widget which is freely available
and is the main vehicle for viewing html documents in the Mosaic program. It
has callbacks for anchor hits, selections, etc and many many resources for
customizing the viewing area of your hypertext documents.

GWHIS:

There is a new product from Quadralay Corporation, called the Global-Wide Help
& Information Systems (GWHIS).

from a press release: AUSTIN, TX (March 3, 1994) Quadralay Corporation today
announced its newest software development tool, Global Wide Help & Information
System (GWHIS).  GWHIS allows third party application developers to add online
documentation and context sensitive help to their applications like never
before.  This documentation may consist of plain text, rich format text,
hypertext, images, audio, and/or video animation and may easily be distributed
either locally or over a wide area network such as the Internet.

GWHIS consists of two primary components.  An application programming
interface (API), and a hypermedia viewer (based on technology licensed from
the NCSA Mosaic project).  Several ancillary conversion programs are also
available allowing end users to easily convert existing documentation into
GWHIS' native HTML format.

GWHIS is available on the following platforms: SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, SPARC
Solaris 2.x, INTEL SCO Open Desktop, INTEL Solaris 2.x, HP 9000/700, and the
RS/6000. Support for additional platforms (including MS Windows and Macintosh)
is under consideration.  Fully functional evaluation copies of this software
are available upon request or via anonymous ftp from ftp.quadralay.com.

Brian Combs Quadralay Corporation [e-mail]



Bristol Technology have a hypertext system HyperHelp with the look-and-feel of
either Motif or OpenLook. It should be available from january 31, 1992.
Contact

        Bristol Technology Inc.
        898 Ethan Allen Highway
        Ridgefield, CT  06877
        203-438-6969 (phone)
        203-438-5013 (fax)
        uunet.uu.net!bristol!keith

Demos are available by anonymous ftp from  ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9) in the
vendor/Bristol/HyperHelp as files sun.motif.tar.Z and hp.tar.Z.

There was a posting of a motif hypertext-widget to comp.sources.x (Author:
B.Raoult ( [e-mail] ) ).  It had the facility to read in helptext from
a file.

From Francois Felix Ingrand ([e-mail]): I have translated the Info
AW (originally written by Jordan Hubbard) to Motif. It is a Widget to browse
Info files (format used by GNU for their various documentations). I use it as
the help system of various tool I wrote.  It is available on laas.laas.fr
(140.93.0.15) in /pub/prs/xinfo-motif.tar.Z

Form Scott Raney ([e-mail]) MetaCard is a commercial package that
can be used to implement hypertext help.  The text fields support multiple
typefaces, sizes, styles, colors, subscript/superscript, and hypertext links.
It has a Motif interface, and a template for calling it from an Xt/Motif
application is included.  You can FTP a save-disabled distribution from
ftp.metacard.com or from world.std.com.  For more info, email to
[e-mail].


The Motifation GbR also provides a hypertext-helpsystem named 'XpgHelp'.
(Motif look-and-feel / features like those known from MS Windows Help ) For a
free demo or more information send email either to griebel@uni-paderborn.d e
or contact the distributor:

        PEM GmbH,
        Vaihinger Strasse 49,
        7000 Stuttgart 80,
        Germany,
        [phone] (phone),
        [phone] (fax),
[e-mail]

XpgHelp has nearly the same features like HyperHelp: (multiple fonts, graphics
in b&w and color, different styles, tabs, links, short links, notepad, ...)

The Interface Builder MOTIFATION uses XpgHelp as its hypertext helpsystem.



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Subject: 160)  Can I specify a widget in a resource file?

Answer: This answer, which uses the Xmu library, is due to David Elliott.  If
the converter is added, then the name of a widget (a string) can be used in
resource files, and will be converted to the appropriate widget.

This code, which was basically stolen from the Athena Form widget, adds a
String to Widget converter.  I wrote it as a general routine that I call at
the beginning of all of my programs, and made it so I could add other
converters as needed (like String to Unit Type ;-).

        #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
        #include <X11/StringDefs.h>
        #include <Xm/Xm.h>
        #include <X11/Xmu/Converters.h>
        #include <X11/IntrinsicP.h>
        #include <X11/CoreP.h>

        void
        setupConverters()
        {
                static XtConvertArgRec parentCvtArgs[] = {
                        {XtBaseOffset, (caddr_t)XtOffset(Widget, core.parent),
                                sizeof(Widget)}
                };

                XtAddConverter(XmRString, XmRWindow, XmuCvtStringToWidget,
                        parentCvtArgs, XtNumber(parentCvtArgs));
        }



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Subject: 161)  Why are only some of my translations are being installed?  I
have a translation table like the following, but only the first ones are
getting installed and the rest are ignored.

 *Text.translations:    #override \
     Ctrl<Key>a:    beginning-of-line() \n\
     Ctrl<Key>e:    end-of-line() \n\
     Ctrl<Key>f:    forward-character() \n\


Answer: Most likely, you have a space at the end of one of the lines (the
first in this case).

     Ctrl<Key>a:    beginning-of-line() \n\
                                           ^ space here

The second backslash in each line is there to protect the real newline
character and so you must not follow it with anything other than the newline
itself. Otherwise it acts as the end of the resource definition and the
remaining lines are not added.


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Subject: 162)  Where can I get the PanHandler code?

Answer: It is available by email from Chuck Ocheret:  [e-mail].

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Subject: 163)  What are these passive grab warnings?  When I destroy certain
widgets I get a stream of messages

    Warning: Attempt to remove non-existant passive grab


Answer: They are meaningless, and you want to ignore them.  Do this (from Kee
Hinckley) by installing an XtWarning handler that explicitly looks for them
and discards them:

        static void xtWarnCB(String message) {
           if (asi_strstr(message, "non-existant passive grab", TRUE)) return;
           ...

They come from Xt, and (W. Scott Meeks): "it's something that the designers of
Xt decided the toolkit should do. Unfortunately, Motif winds up putting
passive grabs all over the place for the menu system.  On the one hand, we
want to remove all these grabs when menus get destroyed so that they don't
leak memory; on the other hand, it's almost impossible to keep track of all
the grabs, so we have a conservative strategy of ungrabbing any place where a
grab could have been made and we don't explicitly know that there is no grab.
The unfortunate side effect is the little passive grab warning messages.
We're trying to clean these up where possible, but there are some new places
where the warning is generated.  Until we get this completely cleaned up (1.2
maybe), your best bet is probably to use a warning handler."

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Subject: 164)  How do I have more buttons than three in a box?  I want to have
something like a MessageBox (or other widget) with more than three buttons,
but with the same nice appearance.

[Last modified: May 93]

Answer: The Motif 1.2 MessageBox widget allows extra buttons to be added after
the OK button. Just create the extra buttons as children of the MessageBox.
Similarly with the SelectionBox.

Pre-Motif 1.2, you have to do one of the following methods.

A SelectionBox is created with four buttons, but the fourth (the Apply button)
is unmanaged. To manage it get its widget ID via
XmSelectionBoxGetChild(parent, XmDIALOG_APPLY_BUTTON) and then XtManage it.
Unmanage all of the other bits in the SelectionBox that you don't want.  If
you want more than four buttons, try two SelectionBoxes (or similar) together
in a container, where all of the unwanted parts of the widgets are unmanaged.

Alternatively, build your own dialog:

/* Written by Dan Heller.  Copyright 1991, O'Reilly && Associates.
 * This program is freely distributable without licensing fees and
 * is provided without guarantee or warranty expressed or implied.
 * This program is -not- in the public domain.  This program is
 * taken from the Motif Programming Manual, O'Reilly Volume 6.
 */

/* action_area.c -- demonstrate how CreateActionArea() can be used
 * in a real application.  Create what would otherwise be identified
 * as a PromptDialog, only this is of our own creation.  As such,
 * we provide a TextField widget for input.  When the user presses
 * Return, the Ok button is activated.
 */
#include <Xm/DialogS.h>
#include <Xm/PushBG.h>
#include <Xm/PushB.h>
#include <Xm/LabelG.h>
#include <Xm/PanedW.h>
#include <Xm/Form.h>
#include <Xm/RowColumn.h>
#include <Xm/TextF.h>

typedef struct {
    char *label;
    void (*callback)();
    caddr_t data;
} ActionAreaItem;

static void
    do_dialog(), close_dialog(), activate_cb(),
    ok_pushed(), cancel_pushed(), help();

main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
    Widget toplevel, button;
    XtAppContext app;

    toplevel = XtVaAppInitialize(&app, "Demos",
        NULL, 0, &argc, argv, NULL, NULL);

    button = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("Push Me",
        xmPushButtonWidgetClass, toplevel, NULL);
    XtAddCallback(button, XmNactivateCallback, do_dialog, NULL);

    XtRealizeWidget(toplevel);
    XtAppMainLoop(app);
}

/* callback routine for "Push Me" button.  Actually, this represents
 * a function that could be invoked by any arbitrary callback.  Here,
 * we demonstrate how one can build a standard customized dialog box.
 * The control area is created here and the action area is created in
 * a separate, generic routine: CreateActionArea().
 */
static void
do_dialog(w, file)
Widget w; /* will act as dialog's parent */
char *file;
{
    Widget dialog, pane, rc, label, text_w, action_a;
    XmString string;
    extern Widget CreateActionArea();
    Arg args[10];
    static ActionAreaItem action_items[] = {
        { "Ok",     ok_pushed,     NULL          },
        { "Cancel", cancel_pushed, NULL          },
        { "Close",  close_dialog,  NULL          },
        { "Help",   help,          "Help Button" },
    };

    /* The DialogShell is the Shell for this dialog.  Set it up so
     * that the "Close" button in the window manager's system menu
     * destroys the shell (it only unmaps it by default).
     */
    dialog = XtVaCreatePopupShell("dialog",
        xmDialogShellWidgetClass, XtParent(w),
        XmNtitle,  "Dialog Shell",     /* give arbitrary title in wm */
        XmNdeleteResponse, XmDESTROY,  /* system menu "Close" action */
        NULL);

    /* now that the dialog is created, set the Close button's
     * client data, so close_dialog() will know what to destroy.
     */
    action_items[2].data = (caddr_t)dialog;

    /* Create the paned window as a child of the dialog.  This will
     * contain the control area (a Form widget) and the action area
     * (created by CreateActionArea() using the action_items above).
     */
    pane = XtVaCreateWidget("pane", xmPanedWindowWidgetClass, dialog,
       1,
        XmNsashHeight, 1,
        NULL);

    /* create the control area (Form) which contains a
     * Label gadget and a List widget.
     */
    rc = XtVaCreateWidget("control_area", xmRowColumnWidgetClass, pane, NULL);
    string = XmStringCreateSimple("Type Something:");
    XtVaCreateManagedWidget("label", xmLabelGadgetClass, rc,
        XmNlabelString,    string,
        XmNleftAttachment, XmATTACH_FORM,
        XmNtopAttachment,  XmATTACH_FORM,
        NULL);
    XmStringFree(string);

    text_w = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("text-field",
        xmTextFieldWidgetClass, rc, NULL);

    /* RowColumn is full -- now manage */
    XtManageChild(rc);

    /* Set the client data "Ok" and "Cancel" button's callbacks. */
    action_items[0].data = (caddr_t)text_w;
    action_items[1].data = (caddr_t)text_w;

    /* Create the action area -- we don't need the widget it returns. */
    action_a = CreateActionArea(pane, action_items, XtNumber(action_items));

    /* callback for Return in TextField.  Use action_a as client data */
    XtAddCallback(text_w, XmNactivateCallback, activate_cb, action_a);

    XtManageChild(pane);
    XtPopup(dialog, XtGrabNone);
}

/*--------------*/
/* The next four functions are the callback routines for the buttons
 * in the action area for the dialog created above.  Again, they are
 * simple examples, yet they demonstrate the fundamental design approach.
 */
static void
close_dialog(w, shell)
Widget w, shell;
{
    XtDestroyWidget(shell);
}

/* The "ok" button was pushed or the user pressed Return */
static void
ok_pushed(w, text_w, cbs)
Widget w, text_w;         /* the text widget is the client data */
XmAnyCallbackStruct *cbs;
{
    char *text = XmTextFieldGetString(text_w);

    printf("String = %s0, text);
    XtFree(text);
}

static void
cancel_pushed(w, text_w, cbs)
Widget w, text_w;         /* the text field is the client data */
XmAnyCallbackStruct *cbs;
{
    /* cancel the whole operation; reset to NULL. */
    XmTextFieldSetString(text_w, "");
}

static void
help(w, string)
Widget w;
String string;
{
    puts(string);
}
/*--------------*/

/* When Return is pressed in TextField widget, respond by getting
 * the designated "default button" in the action area and activate
 * it as if the user had selected it.
 */
static void
activate_cb(text_w, client_data, cbs)
Widget text_w;              /* user pressed Return in this widget */
XtPointer client_data;        /* action_area passed as client data */
XmAnyCallbackStruct *cbs;   /* borrow the "event" field from this */
{
    Widget dflt, action_area = (Widget)client_data;

    XtVaGetValues(action_area, XmNdefaultButton, &dflt, NULL);
    if (dflt) /* sanity check -- this better work */
        /* make the default button think it got pushed.  This causes
         * "ok_pushed" to be called, but XtCallActionProc() causes
         * the button appear to be activated as if the user selected it.
         */
        XtCallActionProc(dflt, "ArmAndActivate", cbs->event, NULL, 0);
}

#define TIGHTNESS 20

Widget
CreateActionArea(parent, actions, num_actions)
Widget parent;
ActionAreaItem *actions;
int num_actions;
{
    Widget action_area, widget;
    int i;

    action_area = XtVaCreateWidget("action_area", xmFormWidgetClass, parent,
        XmNfractionBase, TIGHTNESS*num_actions - 1,
        XmNleftOffset,   10,
        XmNrightOffset,  10,
        NULL);

    for (i = 0; i < num_actions; i++) {
        widget = XtVaCreateManagedWidget(actions[i].label,
            xmPushButtonWidgetClass, action_area,
            XmNleftAttachment,       i? XmATTACH_POSITION : XmATTACH_FORM,
            XmNleftPosition,         TIGHTNESS*i,
            XmNtopAttachment,        XmATTACH_FORM,
            XmNbottomAttachment,     XmATTACH_FORM,
            XmNrightAttachment,
                    i != num_actions-1? XmATTACH_POSITION : XmATTACH_FORM,
            XmNrightPosition,        TIGHTNESS*i + (TIGHTNESS-1),
            XmNshowAsDefault,        i == 0,
            XmNdefaultButtonShadowThickness, 1,
            NULL);
        if (actions[i].callback)
            XtAddCallback(widget, XmNactivateCallback,
                actions[i].callback, actions[i].data);
        if (i == 0) {
            /* Set the action_area's default button to the first widget
             * created (or, make the index a parameter to the function
             * or have it be part of the data structure). Also, set the
             * pane window constraint for max and min heights so this
             * particular pane in the PanedWindow is not resizable.
             */
            Dimension height, h;
            XtVaGetValues(action_area, XmNmarginHeight, &h, NULL);
            XtVaGetValues(widget, XmNheight, &height, NULL);
            height += 2 * h;
            XtVaSetValues(action_area,
                XmNdefaultButton, widget,
                XmNpaneMaximum,   height,
                XmNpaneMinimum,   height,
                NULL);
        }
    }

    XtManageChild(action_area);

    return action_area;
}



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Subject: 165)  How do I create a "busy working cursor"?

Answer: - in Baudouin's code (following), the idea is to keep in an array an
up-to-date list of all shells used in the application, and set for all of them
the cursor to a watch or to the default cursor, with the 2 functions provided.

- in Dan Heller's code (later), the idea is to turn on the watch cursor for
the top-level shell only, popup a working window to possibly abort the
callback, and manage some expose events during the callback.

- in the FAQ for comp.windows.x (#113), the idea is to bring a large window on
top of the application, hide all windows below it, and turn on the watch
cursor on this large window. Unmapping the large window resets the default
cursor, mapping it turns on the watch cursor.

From Baudouin Raoult ([e-mail])

void my_SetWatchCursor(w)
Widget w;
{
        static Cursor watch = NULL;

        if(!watch)
                watch = XCreateFontCursor(XtDisplay(w),XC_watch);

        XDefineCursor(XtDisplay(w),XtWindow(w),watch);
        XmUpdateDisplay(w);
}

void my_ResetCursor(w)
Widget w;
{
        XUndefineCursor(XtDisplay(w),XtWindow(w));
        XmUpdateDisplay(w);
}


Answer: A solution with lots of bells and whistles is

/* Written by Dan Heller.  Copyright 1991, O'Reilly && Associates.
 * This program is freely distributable without licensing fees and
 * is provided without guarantee or warrantee expressed or implied.
 * This program is -not- in the public domain.
 */

/* busy.c -- demonstrate how to use a WorkingDialog and to process
 * only "important" events.  e.g., those that may interrupt the
 * task or to repaint widgets for exposure.  Set up a simple shell
 * and a widget that, when pressed, immediately goes into its own
 * loop.  First, "lock" the shell so that a timeout cursor is set on
 * the shell and pop up a WorkingDialog.  Then enter loop ... sleep
 * for one second ten times, checking between each interval to see
 * if the user clicked the Stop button or if any widgets need to be
 * refreshed.  Ignore all other events.
 *
 * main() and get_busy() are stubs that would be replaced by a real
 * application; all other functions can be used "as is."
 */
#include <Xm/MessageB.h>
#include <Xm/PushB.h>
#include <X11/cursorfont.h>

Widget shell;
void TimeoutCursors();
Boolean CheckForInterrupt();

main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
    XtAppContext app;
    Widget button;
    XmString label;
    void get_busy();

    shell = XtVaAppInitialize(&app, "Demos",
        NULL, 0, &argc, argv, NULL, NULL);

    label = XmStringCreateSimple(
        "Boy, is *this* going to take a long time.");
    button = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("button",
        xmPushButtonWidgetClass, shell,
        XmNlabelString,          label,
        NULL);
    XmStringFree(label);
    XtAddCallback(button, XmNactivateCallback, get_busy, argv[1]);

    XtRealizeWidget(shell);
    XtAppMainLoop(app);
}

void
get_busy(widget)
Widget widget;
{
    int n;

    TimeoutCursors(True, True);
    for (n = 0; n < 10; n++) {
;
        if (CheckForInterrupt()) {
            puts("Interrupt!");
            break;
        }
    }
    if (n == 10)
        puts("done.");
    TimeoutCursors(False, NULL);
}

/* The interesting part of the program -- extract and use at will */
static Boolean stopped;  /* True when user wants to stop processing */
static Widget dialog;    /* WorkingDialog displayed when timed out */

/* timeout_cursors() turns on the "watch" cursor over the application
 * to provide feedback for the user that he's going to be waiting
 * a while before he can interact with the appliation again.
 */
void
TimeoutCursors(on, interruptable)
int on, interruptable;
{
    static int locked;
    static Cursor cursor;
    extern Widget shell;
    XSetWindowAttributes attrs;
    Display *dpy = XtDisplay(shell);
    XEvent event;
    Arg args[1];
    XmString str;
    extern void stop();

    /* "locked" keeps track if we've already called the function.
     * This allows recursion and is necessary for most situations.
     */
    on? locked++ : locked--;
    if (locked > 1 || locked == 1 && on == 0)
        return; /* already locked and we're not unlocking */

    stopped = False; /* doesn't matter at this point; initialize */
    if (!cursor) /* make sure the timeout cursor is initialized */
        cursor = XCreateFontCursor(dpy, XC_watch);

    /* if "on" is true, then turn on watch cursor, otherwise, return
     * the shell's cursor to normal.
     */
    attrs.cursor = on? cursor : None;

    /* change the main application shell's cursor to be the timeout
     * cursor (or to reset it to normal).  If other shells exist in
     * this application, they will have to be listed here in order
     * for them to have timeout cursors too.
     */
    XChangeWindowAttributes(dpy, XtWindow(shell), CWCursor, &attrs);

    XFlush(dpy);

    if (on) {
        /* we're timing out, put up a WorkingDialog.  If the process
         * is interruptable, allow a "Stop" button.  Otherwise, remove
         * all actions so the user can't stop the processing.
         */
        str = XmStringCreateSimple("Busy.  Please Wait.");
        XtSetArg(args[0], XmNmessageString, str);
        dialog = XmCreateWorkingDialog(shell, "Busy", args, 1);
        XmStringFree(str);
        XtUnmanageChild(
            XmMessageBoxGetChild(dialog, XmDIALOG_OK_BUTTON));
        if (interruptable) {
            str = XmStringCreateSimple("Stop");
            XtVaSetValues(dialog, XmNcancelLabelString, str, NULL);
            XmStringFree(str);
            XtAddCallback(dialog, XmNcancelCallback, stop, NULL);
        } else
            XtUnmanageChild(
                XmMessageBoxGetChild(dialog, XmDIALOG_CANCEL_BUTTON));
        XtUnmanageChild(
            XmMessageBoxGetChild(dialog, XmDIALOG_HELP_BUTTON));
        XtManageChild(dialog);
    } else {
        /* get rid of all button and keyboard events that occured
         * during the time out.  The user shouldn't have done anything
         * during this time, so flush for button and keypress events.
         * KeyRelease events are not discarded because accelerators
         * require the corresponding release event before normal input
         * can continue.
         */
        while (XCheckMaskEvent(dpy,
                ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask | ButtonMotionMask
                | PointerMotionMask | KeyPressMask, &event)) {
            /* do nothing */;
        }
        XtDestroyWidget(dialog);
    }
}

/* User Pressed the "Stop" button in dialog. */
void
stop(dialog)
Widget dialog;
{
    stopped = True;
}

Boolean
CheckForInterrupt()
{
    extern Widget shell;
    Display *dpy = XtDisplay(shell);
    Window win = XtWindow(dialog);
    XEvent event;

    /* Make sure all our requests get to the server */
    XFlush(dpy);

    /* Let motif process all pending exposure events for us. */
    XmUpdateDisplay(shell);

    /* Check the event loop for events in the dialog ("Stop"?) */
    while (XCheckMaskEvent(dpy,
            ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask | ButtonMotionMask |
            PointerMotionMask | KeyPressMask | KeyReleaseMask,
            &event)) {
        /* got an "interesting" event. */
        if (event.xany.window == win)
            XtDispatchEvent(&event); /* it's in our dialog.. */
        else /* uninteresting event--throw it away and sound bell */
            XBell(dpy, 50);
    }
    return stopped;
}


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Subject: 166)  Can I use the hourglass that mwm uses?

[Last modified: March 93]

Answer: The hourglass used by mwm is hard-coded into code that is subject to
OSF copyright. In Motif 1.2 though, the bitmaps for this and other things
(information, no_enter, question, warning, working) were made available.  The
install process will probably add them to /usr/include/X11/bitmaps.
Otherwise, just use the watch cursor XC_watch of the previous question,
because that has the same semantics.



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Subject: 167)  What order should the libraries be linked in?

[Last modified: August 92]

Answer: At link time, use the library order  -lXm -lXt -lX11. There are two
reasons for this ([e-mail]):

On most systems, the order matters because the linker won't re-scan a library
once it is done with it.  Thus any references to Xlib calls from Xm will
probably be unresolved.

The [other] problem is that there are two VendorShell widgets. A dummy is
provided in the Xt library, but a widget set will rely on its own being
referenced.  If you mention Xt first, the linker will choose the wrong one.

Motif code will wrongly assume the Motif VendorShell has been class-
initialized [and will probably crash].
 Xaw has a similar problem, but a softer landing; it only complains about
unregistered converters.


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Subject: 168)  How do I use xmkmf for Motif clients?

[Last modified: October 1992]

Answer: This advice comes from [e-mail]:

There are a number of intractable problems with using X configuration files
and xmkmf, while trying to make it easy to build Motif.  Not the least of
these, but one I've never heard mentioned yet, is that the rules for
contructing the names of shared library macros are machine-dependent, and in
the various xxxLib.tmpl files.  Do we edit all those files to add definitions
for XMLIB, DEPXMLIB, etc., or do we put a maze of #ifdefs into the Motif.tmpl
file?

Please note that, if you install Motif, it overwrites your installed
Imake.tmpl with one that includes Motif.tmpl and Motif.rules.

With those caveats, I think the following guidelines will help.

David Brooks OSF

Clients in the X11R5 release use the xmkmf command to build Makefiles.  In
general, the xmkmf command cannot be used for Motif clients, because of the
need to consider the UseInstalledMotif flag separately.  Since xmkmf is a
simple script that calls imake, it is easy to construct the proper call to
imake using the following rules.

In the following, replace {MTOP} by the toplevel directory with the Motif
source tree, and {XTOP} by the toplevel ("mit") directory with the X source.
It is assumed that the directory containing your installed imake is in your
PATH.

When needed, the imake variables XTop and MTop are normally set in your
site.def (to {XTOP} amd {MTOP} respectively); however they may also be set
with additional -D arguments to imake.

1. With both X and Motif in their source trees, ensure the imake variables
   XTop and MTop are set, and use:

        ${XTOP}/config/imake -I{MTOP}/config

2. With Motif in its source tree, and X installed, ensure MTop is set, and
   use:

        imake -I{MTOP}/config -DUseInstalled

3. With both Motif and X installed, and a nonstandard ProjectRoot (see
   site.def for an explanation of this), use:

        imake -DUseInstalled -DUseInstalledMotif -I{ProjectRoot}/lib/X11/config

   or, if the configuration files are in /usr/lib/X11/config:

        imake -DUseInstalled -DUseInstalledMotif


To build a simple Imakefile, remember to include lines like this:

        LOCAL_LIBRARIES = XmClientLibs
                DEPLIBS = XmClientDepLibs

Or, for a client that uses uil/mrm, replace these by MrmClientLibs and
MrmClientDepLibs, and also use:

        MSimpleUilTarget(program)

to build the client and uid file.  Look at the demos for more examples.


And Paul Howell <[e-mail]> added:

i did this, calling the new script "xmmkmf".  It passes both -DUseInstalled
and -DUseInstalledMotif.

and i modified the stock R5 Imake.tmpl to do this:

#include <Project.tmpl>
#ifdef UseInstalledMotif
#include <Motif.tmpl>
#endif

#include <Imake.rules>
#ifdef UseInstalledMotif
#include <Motif.rules>
#endif

the result was something that does both athena and motif rules.  and it really
works, just that easy!


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Subject: 169)  How do I make context sensitive help?  The Motif Style Guide
says that an application must initiate context-sensitive help by changing the
shape of the pointer to the question pointer. When the user moves the pointer
to the component help is wanted on and presses BSelect, any available context
sensitive help for the component must be presented, and the pointer reverts
from the question pointer.
[Last modified: August 92]

Answer: A widget that gives context sensitive help would place this help in
the XmNhelpCallback function. To trigger this function: (from Martin G C
Davies, [e-mail])

I use the following callback that is called when the "On Context" help
pulldown menu is selected. It does the arrow bit and calls the help callbacks
for the widget. It also zips up the widget tree looking for help if needs be.
I don't restrict the arrows motion so I can get help on dialog boxes. No
prizes for guessing what "popup_message" does.


static void ContextHelp(
    Widget              w ,
    Opaque              * tag ,
    XmAnyCallbackStruct * callback_struct
)
{
    static Cursor   context_cursor = NULL ;
    Widget          context_widget ;

    if ( context_cursor == NULL )
        context_cursor = XCreateFontCursor( display, XC_question_arrow ) ;

    context_widget = XmTrackingLocate( top_level_widget,
                                context_cursor, FALSE ) ;

    if ( context_widget != NULL ) /* otherwise its not a widget */
    {
        XmAnyCallbackStruct cb ;

        cb.reason = XmCR_HELP ;
        cb.event = callback_struct->event ;

        /*
         * If there's no help at this widget we'll track back
           up the hierarchy trying to find some.
         */

        do
        {
            if ( ( XtHasCallbacks( context_widget, XmNhelpCallback ) ==
                                                XtCallbackHasSome ) )
            {
                XtCallCallbacks( context_widget, XmNhelpCallback, & cb ) ;
                return ;
            }
            else
                context_widget = XtParent( context_widget ) ;
        } while ( context_widget != NULL ) ;
    }

    popup_message( "No context-sensitive help found\n\
for the selected object." ) ;
}



Dave Bonnett suggested, to use the following translations for XmText (and
XmTextField) widgets to get the same help with key strokes, and to provide an
accelerator label in the Context help menu entry.

MyApp*XmText*translations: #override\n\
                                <Key>F1:    Help()

MyApp*Help_menu*Contextual Help.acceleratorText:   F1

MyApp*defaultVirtualBindings:           osfBackSpace : <Key>Delete\n\
                                        osfRight : <Key>Right\n\
                                        osfLeft  : <Key>Left\n\
                                        osfUp    : <Key>Up\n\
                                        osfHelp  : <Key>F1\n\
                                        osfDown  : <Key>Down


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Subject: 170)  How do I debug a modal interaction?

When an application crashes in a modal section (such as in a modal dialog, a
menu or when a drag and drop is in action), I cannot access the debugger.

[Last modified: January 1993]

Answer: Run the debugger on one display while the application writes to
another display.  ---------
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Subject: 171)+ How can I disable Drag and Drop in my Motif 1.2 client ?

[Last modified: December]

Answer: Set the XmDisplay drag-protocol resources to XmDRAG_NONE.
        The following code fragment demonstrates this:

#include <Xm/Display.h>


    dw = XmGetXmDisplay(XtDisplay(shell));
    /* where "shell" is your client's top-level shell. */

    XtVaSetValues(dw, XmNdragInitiatorProtocolStyle, XmDRAG_NONE, NULL);
    XtVaSetValues(dw, XmNdragReceiverProtocolStyle,  XmDRAG_NONE, NULL);


thanks to Lance Purple ([e-mail])

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Subject: 172)  Where can I get info on the Motif drag and drop protocol?

[Last modified: March]

Answer: The drag and drop protocol implemented by OSF is not stable, so they
have not published it yet. The API should remain stable though.  The OSF
protocol is not compatable with the OpenLook protocol.  OSF and Sun are
working on a joint protocol for publication.

For programming examples on Motif D&D, see the Motif 1.2 Programmers Guide.

For a third alternative, try Roger Reynolds D&D protocol, available from
netcom.com in /pub/rogerr.

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Subject: 173)  TOPIC: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This list was compiled using questions and answers posed to
comp.windows.x.motif and motif-talk. Some extracts were also taken from FAQs
of comp.windows.x.  To all who contributed one way or the other, thanks! I
haven't often given individual references, but  you may recognise
contributions. If I have mangled them too much, let me know.



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Jan Newmarch of  has been maintaining this FAQ and has really helped a great
many of us by providing this valuable service.  He deserves a big round of
applause for his efforts.  I use this resource all the time and it has saved
me countless hours with manual and source code trying to relearn what others
have already discovered.  Jan`s efforts are gratefully acknowledged here.

I am maintaining the FAQ now and will strive to maintain the quality
that Jan has acheived. Enjoy!
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