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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: programmer extention to listWidget
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.173136.15755@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 17:31:36 GMT
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In article <8650@ubc-cs.UUCP>, lindholm@greve.ucs.ubc.ca (George Lindholm)
writes:
|> I'm working on an application that needs something like the listWidget
except
|> that I need to have more than one item hilighted at any time. Is it possible
|> for me to extend the listWidget or do I have to dig deeper into X?

One of the main purposes of the X Toolkit is allowing programmers to
extend the widget set through subclassing.  The X Toolkit Intrinsics
manual has details on how to do it.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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