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From: Jean-Christophe.Dhellemmes@MAPS.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: New Athena Widgets
Message-ID: <9007022123.AA12887@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 2 Jul 90 21:23:19 GMT
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Hi,

I am using X11R4 and the Athena Widgets. I would like to know if there is
somewhere somebody gathering sort of a database of widgets other than the
standard athena widgets. There are some widgets I would like to write, but I
guess they are general enough so that somebody has probably written them
already. I don't really know how to subclass widgets or create my own
widgets, and would rather get some solid code from a real Xpert.

The widgets I need are:

  - A string array text subwidget. Like the Ascii text sub-widget, but takes
    an array of string pointers as an input, like the List widget. It is too
    bad to have to convert my array of string pointers to a big ascii buffer
    or write to an ascii file when I want to diplay my text...

  - A numeric keypad widget. This is basically to input a number without
    having to use the keyboard and a text widget.

If you have written such widgets and are willing to share your code, or if
you know of a good source of "ready to use" widgets, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.
							* JCD
						   jcd@maps.cs.cmu.edu