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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: athena asciiDiskWidget
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Date: 24 Aug 89 18:19:42 GMT
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> The lines of data turn out to be longer than the widget
> so I set the  scrollVertical | scrollHorizontal as Options. However, no
> horizontal scrollbars ever exist and my line just gets chopped off in the
> middle.

Scroll Horizontal is not implemented in R3.  For those of you who have been
so patient on this one I have implemented Horizontal scrolling for R4.

>    When the application writes another line of text to the bottom of the file,
> the asciiDiskWidget does not keep up with the file.

This is a bug in the Disk widget.  I have fixed things so that if you do
make a SetValues call with a file name it always loads that file.  Thus you
can reload the current file this will be fixed in R4.  In R3 the only thing
that you can do is destroy the disksource and create a new one.  This will
force a re-read of the file.  

I have done a lot of work with the Text widget, and I think you will find
things much easier to deal with in R4.  The changes are so great the patches
to R3 are not possible.

> Are there any patches for the Athena Text Widgets that aren't in the fixes
> 1-10? 

Nope.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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