Archive-name: motif-faq/part5
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
• 108) TOPIC: LIST WIDGET
• 109) Should I create an XmList widget as a child of automatic
• 110) How do I best put a new set of items into a list?
• 111) Can I have strings with different fonts in a list?
• 112) Can I get a bitmap to show in a list item like I can in a
• 113) Can I have items with different colors in a list widget?
• 114) How can I line up columns in a list widget?
• 115) Can I grey out an item in a list widget? I want to make
• 116) Can I have multi-line items in a list?
• 117) How can I tell the position of selected items in a list?
• 118) How can I configure a scrolled list widget to show a horizontal
• 119) How can I programatically select all of the items in an XmList?
• 120) TOPIC: FILE SELECTION BOX WIDGET
• 121) What is libPW.a and do I need it? My manual says I need to
• 122) What are these compile errors: Undefined symbol _regcmp and
• 123) What's wrong with the Motif 1.0 File Selection Box? I can't
• 124) How can I keep my file selection boxes from resizing when I
• 125) What's wrong with the FileSelectionBox under Solaris?
• 126) TOPIC: FORM WIDGET
• 127) Why don't labels in a Form resize when the label is changed?
• 128) How can I center a widget in a form?
• 129) How do I line up two columns of widgets of different types? I
• 130) TOPIC: PUSHBUTTON WIDGET
• 131) Why doesn't the enter or return key activate the button with
• 132) Why can't I use accelerators on buttons not in a menu?
• 133) TOPIC: TOGGLEBUTTON WIDGET
• 134) What widgets give the look of push buttons, but behavior of
• 135) Can I customize XmToggleButton to use my own indicator graphic
• 136) TOPIC: ICON WIDGET and PIXMAPS
• 137) What is XPM?
• 138) How do I convert my XPM file into a Pixmap?
• 139) How can I display a multi-color image in a widget?
• 140) Can I use XmGetPixmap in Motif 1.2 to create colored images?
• 141) Why does XpmCreatePixmapFromData fail with a pixmap containing
• 142) How can I convert a Sun/GIF/TIFF image to a pixmap?
• 143) How can I use Motif's pre-defined pixmaps?
• 144) TOPIC: SCALE AND SCROLLBAR WIDGET
• 145) Can the XmScale widget have arrows or tick marks in Motif 2.0?
• 146) How can I set the color of a XmScale widget's trough?
• 147) How does Motif implement mouse button auto-repeat on the
• 148) TOPIC: LABEL WIDGET
• 149) How can I align the text in a label (button, etc) widget?
• 150) Why doesn't label alignment work in a XmRowColumn?
• 151) How can I set a multi-line label?
• 152) How can I have a vertical label?
• 153) How can I have a Pixmap in a Label?
• 154) Why doesn't the XmLabel widget obey the XmNwith and XmNheight
• 155) How do you set the background color of a label widget using

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