Archive-name: motif-faq/part6
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
• 156) TOPIC: DRAWING AREA WIDGET
• 157) How can I send an expose event to a Drawing Area widget? (or
• 158) How can I know when a DrawingArea has been resized? It
• 159) How can I create a drawing area widget with a visual type
• 160) How can I display postscript in a Motif widget, such as
• 161) TOPIC: MAIN WINDOW WIDGET
• 162) How can I create a message window in an XmMainWindow?
• 163) TOPIC: SCROLLED WINDOW WIDGET
• 164) How do I tell if a scrolled window's scrollbars are visible?
• 165) How can I programatically scroll a XmScrolledWindow in
• 166) What widget does the XmScrolledWindow use for its clip window?
• 167) How do I create a scrolled window with only one scrollbar?
• 168) TOPIC: MENUS
• 169) How can I change the cursor used in Motif menus?
• 170) How do I put my help menu on the far right of my menubar?
• 171) Can I change or disable the menu bar accelerator from the
• 172) How do I set the current choice in a radio box or an option
• 173) How can I determine the item selected in a a radio box or
• 174) How can I change the cascade indicator on an option menu?
• 175) How do I unset an XmToggleButton in a radio box? If a radio-
• 176) Can I place a radio box in a pulldown menu?
• 177) How do I make a menu choice insensitive if it was created with
• 178) What widgets can I put inside a menubar?
• 179) Can I have a cascade button without a submenu in a pulldown
• 180) Should I have a cascade button without a submenu in a pulldown
• 181) What is the best way to create popup menus?
• 182) How do popup menus work?
• 183) How can I disable the button 3 grab if I am not using popup
• 184) Should I use translation tables or actions for popup menus?
• 185) What are the known bugs in popup menus?
• 186) Can I have multiple popup menus on the same widget?
• 187) How can I change the shell title of a tear-off menu?
• 188) Can I programmatically tear-off a menu?
• 189) What widgets are valid within Motif menus?
• 190) Can I create multi-column popup or pulldown menus?
• 191) How can I keep my program from hanging if a user activates a
• 192) TOPIC: DRAG AND DROP
• 193) Where can I find info and examples of the Motif drag and drop
• 194) How can I disable Drag and Drop in my Motif 1.2 client ?
• 195) Can I register client data for the Motif XmDropSite drop
• 196) Can unmanged widgets be valid (drag-and-drop) drop sites?
• 197) TOPIC: INPUT FOCUS
• 198) How can I specify the widget that should have the keyboard
• 199) How can I specify my own keyboard traversal order?
• 200) How can I determine which widget has keyboard focus?
• 201) How can I direct the keyboard input to a particular widget?
• 202) How can I have a modal dialog which has to be answered before
• 203) TOPIC: MEMORY AND SPEED
• 204) When can I free data structures passed to or retrieved from
• 205) What memory leaks are known? Why does my application grow in
• 206) Why do I get so many uninitilized memory read (UMR) errors when
• 207) Why does my application take a long time to start up?
• 208) My application is running too slowly. How can I speed it up?
• 209) Why is my application so huge?
• 210) How can I improve performance when creating and deleting
• 211) After I call XtSetValues, when will I see the changes in my
• 212) TOPIC: XMSTRING
• 213) What string functions differ in Motif 1.1 and 1.2? Is
• 214)* How can I get the ASCII text out of an XmString?
• 215) When can XmStrings used as resources be freed?
• 216) Why doesn't XmStringGetNextSegment() work properly?
• 217) Why does using XmStringDraw cause a BadFont error?
• 218) How can I control color of individual strings to show status,
• 219) TOPIC: DIALOGS
• 220) How do I stop my dialog disappearing when I press the help
• 221) How do I make my own dialog? I want a dialog with my own set
• 222) Why do dialog title bars have "_popup" or "<-popup"
• 223) How can I force a dialog window to display?
• 224) How can I control placement of a popup widget? Each time a
• 225) How can I set the dialog's default button?
• 226) How can I create a dialog that behaves like, but looks a little
• 227) How can I use Motif's message dialog bitmaps in my own dialogs?

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