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- From: joagre@London.docs.uu.se (Joakim Greben|)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: DEVGUIDE: how to handle *many* rectbuttons (or not)
- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:01:50 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala University
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- Message-ID: <joagre.721080110@London>
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- Keywords: devguide, olit, rectbutton
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- We are constructing a scheduler for our department that
- is going to show 160-320 lectures at once as rectangles
- showing lecture, lecturer, lecture room.
- We are going to build the interface with devguide using the
- OLIT widget set and we ask ourselves:
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- Should we...
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- 1. Represent all lectures as rectbuttons with a bitmapped content
- and thus using the built in check for mouse-clicks in a button?
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- 2. Build all rectangles on a canvas with Xlib drawing calls and do
- our own mouse tracking?
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- Any opinions?
-
- (We have looked at SUNs calender manager and it represents [we think]
- each occasion as a Xlib rectangle on a canvas! Why?)
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- Uppsala University
- Department of Computer Systems
- Joakim Greben|
- Internet: joagre@student.DoCS.UU.SE
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