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From: dmc%satori@Sun.COM (Doug Cook)
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Subject: Re: Xlib graphics within widgets
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Date: 20 Oct 89 02:41:31 GMT
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In article <15802@duke.cs.duke.edu> pusateri@nbsr.duke.edu 
	(Thomas J. Pusateri) writes:
>Although I don't feel as harshly about this as Chan Benson does, I
>don't think that a drawing or even graphing widget is an unreasonable
>request.  If nothing else, maybe you could take Bhalla's and Uhley's
>Athena Graph Widget written at Caltech and clean it up a little. (It's
>colormap implementation and restrictive fonts make it undesirable to
>use as a general tool.)

You might also investigate the canvas package in the XView toolkit
if you don't want to write your own widget and your application 
doesn't require the use of Xt. Granted, it's not a "widget" per se,
but will provide you with an optionally scrollable drawing pane.

	-Doug

Doug Cook				dmc@sun.com
XView Group				cook@gandalf.ucdavis.edu
Sun Microsystems, Inc.