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From: argv@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: MainWindow and CommandWidget questions
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Date: 3 Jul 90 00:51:42 GMT
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The style guide says that an optional "command line" interpreter-type
widget may be made available to the user, but should be placed below
the work area to be sure that it is under the MenuBar in order for
the pulldown menus not to cover up the command line display.  However,
the MainWindow widget places the CommandWidget above the work area.
Is this a bug fixed in 1.1 or is this there by design?

The command widget's history display box must be set to at least 1.
What's wrong with having no visible history lines? If it were
possible, you could use the command widget as a one-line prompter.
Using translations, you could dereference history elements even tho
those items are not displayed.  For example, a translation routine
for ^P can make a call to XtVaGetValues to get the history text from
the previously entered item set the command to that value.  This
would make emacs/vi style history reference possible.  In these cases,
it may be desireable not to display the history -- at least the
option should be available to the programmer.


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dan
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