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From: DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: RE: Two simple user interfaces wanted (Summary)
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Date: 6 Jun 90 16:21:32 GMT
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In article <5073@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>, I wrote:

>
>	I am modifying a program to be more user friendly under X (actually
>DECwindows 2.0 under VMS 5.3-1, but since I'm writing with "pure" Xlib, it
>should be pretty much the same).  Before I go off and possibly re-invent the
>wheel, I was wondering if anyone had a couple of Xlib-based routines to perform
>the following:
>
>	1) Given/passed a character string, display the string and two
>	   push-buttons labelled "Yes" and "No"; for example:
>
>[figure deleted]
>
>	2) Given/passed a character string, display the string, a text
>	   entry field and two push-buttons labelled "OK" and "Cancel";
>	   for example:
>
>[rest deleted]

	A few responses suggested that I use a toolkit to perform these
actions.  I'd rather avoid the extra performance overhead, minimal though it
may be, of a toolkit, since performance is an issue.

	Bill Cheng (william@cs.ucla.edu) suggested I look at the code for
tgif 1.6, which was recently announced here.  He pointed the way to the
routines YesNoCancel() in button.c and Dialog() in dialog.c.  I would suggest
taking a gander at these for code examples; they seem to be quite complete.

						    Thanks for the interest,
							     Mike

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