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- Subject: Xbae 3.8
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.030023.2167@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:00:23 GMT
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- Organization: Bell Communications Research
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:06:37 -0500
- Message-Id: <9301221606.AA24995@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Release 3.8 of Xbae (the Motif XbaeMatrix and XbaeCaption
- widgets) is available at export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/Xbae-widgets-3.8.tar.Z.
- There are no new features, just a couple of bug fixes.
-
- If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
- with the word "help" alone in your message body. You will receive
- instructions on how to ftp via email.
-
- Xbae 3.8 fixes the following problems:
-
- * Changes so widgets compile under Motif 1.2.1
- Known problem: the XmTextField doesn't correctly register it's dropsite
- * Fix function prototypes in Matrix.h
- * Fix Caption so a Caption Pixmap will use the Captions
- XmNforeground resource
- * Include FrameMaker source files for docs
-
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- XbaeMatrix:
-
- XbaeMatrix is a Motif widget which presents an editable array of
- string data to the user in a scrollable table similar to a
- spreadsheet. The rows and columns of the Matrix may optionally be
- labeled. Also, a number of "fixed" leading rows or columns may be
- specified - these behave similarly to the labels. While XbaeMatrix
- looks and acts like a grid of XmTextField widgets, it actually
- contains only one XmTextField. This means that XbaeMatrix widgets
- with hundreds or thousands of rows have much less overhead than they
- would if they used an XmTextField for each cell. XbaeMatrix has
- callbacks for doing field validation and customizing traversal. It
- allows cells to be assigned independent colors. It allows rows,
- columns and regions of cells to be selected (highlighted). The matrix
- can be dynamically grown or shrunk by adding and deleting rows and
- columns at any position.
-
- XbaeCaption:
-
- XbaeCaption is a simple Motif manager widget used to associate an
- XmLabel (caption) with it's single child. The label may be either an
- XmString or Pixmap and can be displayed in any one of twelve positions
- around the perimeter of the child. XbaeCaption's geometry management
- technique is to simply "shrink wrap" it's child and display the
- caption alongside it. By using XbaeCaption with an XmFrame child,
- groups of related widgets can be labeled similarly to the IBM CUA
- "Group Box", but with more flexibility. XbaeCaption is also useful
- for associating labels with individual XmTextField widgets.
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-
- Andrew
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- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Andrew Wason Bell Communications Research
- aw@bae.bellcore.com Piscataway, NJ
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