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- From: gast@quads.uchicago.edu (C. Gareth Gaston)
- Subject: In Search of a Better Scrolling List
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.184556.2701@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: gast@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:45:56 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- Does anybody out the know of any Openlook widgets (in XView or OLit,
- preferably XView) that can handle scrolling columns of data. What I'm
- looking for is sort of like a scrolling list but more sophisticated.
- I want to be able to easily set up columns with centered titles, make
- the columns and/or rows different colors or fonts, select a row or a
- column, etc. It would also be nice if it could handle large numbers
- (1000+) of rows without blowing up. For my current application it
- only needs to be read-only (ie. it doesn't need to take keyboard
- input) but a read-write widget would be nice as well.
-
- I've looked at the Xtra Widget set and their spreadsheet widget might
- be made to do what I want but since I've only seed their Motif demo
- it's hard to say. Does anyone have any experience with this package,
- either positive or negative?
-
- More generally, I'd be interested in a general purpose data entry
- forms package for Openlook. There seem to be boatloads of them for
- the PC (Vermont Creative Software's "Windows for Data" comes to mind),
- but I've never seen one for the Openlook environment. A forms package
- to my mind is something that does more than just display text widgets,
- but actually maps the input back to my data structure and does
- validation and formatting along the way.
-
- I'd be interested in either public domain or comercial software.
-
- Any information or pointers to information will be greatly
- appreciated.
-
- Send me Email and I'll summarize if need be.
-
- Thanks much,
-
- Gareth Gaston
-
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- C. Gareth Gaston
- University of Chicago
- gast@midway.uchicago.edu
-