Archive-name: motif-faq/part4
Last-modified: 1 FEB 2002
Posting-Frequency: irregular
Organization: Kenton Lee, X/Motif Consultant, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/
URL:  http://www.rahul.net/kenton/mfaq.html
Version: 8.1

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Section Contents

• News Headers
• 67) Is there an mwm virtual desktop manager?
• 68) Why does mwm 1.2 crash on startup?
• 69) How do I obtain the size of a unmanaged shell widget?
• 70) How can I create a shell widget with a non-default visual type?
• 71) Can a non-shell Motif widget have a different visual type from
• 72) Why do I get BadMatch errors from my menus when I use a non-
• 73) How do I popup a scrolled list on top of other widgets?
• 74) How can I keep my application's window always on top of all
• 75) How can I maximize my top level shell?
• 76) TOPIC: MOTIF DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (GUI BUILDERS and UIMS's)
• 77)* What GUI tools exist to assist in developing Motif
• 78) TOPIC: GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT
• 79) Why is geometry management so important?
• 80) Why don't my labels resize in a RowColumn widget? I have a
• 81) Does XmRowColumn support multiple columns with different column
• 82) Why do composite widgets (including dialogs) that were created
• 83) How does the ScrolledWindow manage resizing?
• 84) Does the XmPanedWindow widget support horizontal paning?
• 85) TOPIC: TEXT WIDGET
• 86) How do XmTextField and a single line XmText widget differ?
• 87) Why does pressing RETURN in a text widget do nothing? This
• 88) Can you reuse the return value from XtParseTranslationTable?
• 89) When I add text to a scrolling text widget, how can I get the
• 90) How do I scroll text to display the most recently added
• 91) Does the text widget support 16 bit character fonts?
• 92) How can I stop the text widget from echoing characters typed? I
• 93) How can I replace characters typed with say a `*'? I want to
• 94) How can I make a text widget insensitive without graying out the
• 95) How can I best add a large piece of text to a scrolled text
• 96) How can I get the correct colors for scrolled text widget
• 97) How can I highlight text in the Text widget?
• 98) How can I select all of the text in a widget programmatically?
• 99) Can I customize the pointer cursor or insert position indicator
• 100) How can I change colours of text in the Text widget? I want
• 101) How can I change the font of text in the Text widget? I want
• 102) Is there an emacs binding for the text widget?
• 103) What if I have problems with the backspace/delete keys?
• 104) How can I use a file as the text source for a Text widget?
• 105) How can put Text in overstrike mode instead of insert?
• 106) How can I make the Delete key do a Backspace? Related
• 107) Can I change the tab stops in the XmText widget?

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