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From: tomj@eng.sun.COM (Tom Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView Question:  Is It Possible To Change Font For A Panel_List?
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Date: 25 Jul 90 23:09:16 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>I have a Scrolling List that I use to display some tabular data.  The
>I have a Scrolling List that I use to display some tabular data.  The
>data looks something like this:
>
>        1.      15      16
>        2.      3000    4000
>        3.      15398   16080
>(and so on)
>
>The problem is, the Panel_List used to make this Scrolling List seems
>to use a proportional font, so the formatting for the above data is
>screwy.  In other words, it looks something like this:
>
>        1.      15      16
>        2.      3000       4000
>        3.      15398        16080
>(and so on)
>
>What I want to know is, can I change the font of the Scrolling List so
>that it uses a monospaced font instead of the proportional font, or is
>the Panel_List font part of the OPEN LOOK style guide and therefore ?

You're correct about OL style and fonts and that XView works hard to
to help apps to conform.  However, there is support in scrolling lists
to set the fonts for either the list as whole or individual items.
The attributes are PANEL_LIST_FONT and PANEL_LIST_FONTS.  There were
some bugs with this in the 1.0.1 (R4) release, but this has been 
fixed in our version 2 update which should make it to expo.lcs.mit.edu
in the next week or so.  These changes are also part of OpenWindows
version 2.

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