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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Selection Box Widget
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Date: 26 Jul 90 01:54:33 GMT
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> I am creating a selection box widget with a list of items.  Once a single
> item selection has been made, I want to be able to "de-highlight" that 
> selection.  I've tried to reset the following attributes of the selection 
> box without any luck:
> 
>         XtSetArg (Args[n], XmNlistItems, line_item); n++;
>         XtSetArg (Args[n], XmNlistItemCount, number_of_items); n++;
>         XtSetValues(stream_selection_box, Args, n);
Maybe I'm missing something.  What do these SetArgs have to do with
dehighlighting a selection?  Don't you just want XmListDeselect[AllItems/
Item/Pos]?

Or is the problem the initial one of putting things into the list at
all?

In that case I'd use XmListAddItem[Unselected], I'm not sure how
the resource equivalents work.  (Motif has a bunch of cases where
a function seems to do exactly the same thing as a resource.  I
have no idea why, but I tend to go with the function on the assumption
that someone created it for a reason.)

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