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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: 'tick marks' in XmScale Widget?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 21:33:53 GMT
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In article <2676@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes:
>On page 2-13 of _HP OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide_
>(September 1989.......Edition 1) it says:
>
>"A Scale can also have a set of labels and 'tick marks'
>located outside of the Scale region.  These can be
>used to indicate the relative value at various points
>along the scale."
>
>We have Motif 1.0.
>
>I can't find the resources to use to set these
>'tick marks' anywhere.  I've looked in Xm.h,
>Scale.h, ScaleP.h, the man pages online and
>_HP OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference_.

Just create label widgets as children of the scale widget..., eg:

| (setq scale0_w 
|       (send XM_SCALE_WIDGET_CLASS :new :managed "scale" rc_w
|             :XMN_TITLE_STRING "Utterness\nCoefficient"
|             :XMN_SENSITIVE t
|             ))
| (send XM_LABEL_WIDGET_CLASS :new :managed "100" scale0_w
|       )
| (send XM_LABEL_WIDGET_CLASS :new :managed "50" scale0_w
|       )
| (send XM_LABEL_WIDGET_CLASS :new :managed "0" scale0_w
|       )

(it should be obvious how to translate the above WINTERP code into C or UIL
syntax).

>Can anyone tell me if the above lines from the
>_Guide_ are a lie??  Could it be that there is
>a "feature" documented which doesn't really exist :-?
>

Not a lie, but the next best thing -- badly documented.

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