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- From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
- Subject: Re: "Button Bar"?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.171415.14830@news.duc.auburn.edu>
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- Organization: Auburn University Engineering
- References: <1993Jan7.180027.14607@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:14:15 GMT
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- In article 14607@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com, heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser) writes:
- >Is there a freeware program available to create a "button bar" for
- >Openwindows, like the one in MS-Windows3.1 applications (like WP5.1)?
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- You can do something very simular to this with olvwm (and maybe olwm)
- using glyphs for menu entries. The glyphed menu can, of course, be
- pinned up.
-
- I think that the reason you won't see anyone reinventing "button bars"
- is because in OpenLook we've always had pinup menus so the need for a
- button bar is somewhat questionable. Now if we can only convince some
- vendors to enable pinup menus (yes, I'm talking to Informix amongst
- others... hint hint)
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- Richard Elling Manager of Network Support
- Auburn University Engineering Administration
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- Type-5 keyboard survival: xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"
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