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From: david@ics.com (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: multi-column mwm menus
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Date: 17 Aug 90 17:45:47 GMT
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Skip asks:

>>     > Is there a way to define multi-column menus in mwm? Something that would
>>     > display like:
>>     You might try creating a pulldown, and then changing the number of columns
>>     afterwords.  I don't know if it would work, but it's worth a try.
>> 
>> Creating pulldown menus and changing the number of columns from .Xdefaults
>> or .mwmrc seems a strech. Am I missing something?

>Whoops.  Teach me to skim postings!  I was thinking about pulldowns in
>an application menu.  I have no idea how to do it in mwm.  Sorry.
>						-kee

Use the resource manager to affect the widget:
	$ mwm 	-xrm '*_MwmSystemMenu_.numColumns: 2' 
		-xrm '*_MwmSystemMenu_.packing: pack_column'

Other menus have the names defined in your defaults files; use the names
explicitly instead of wild-carding *numColumns and *packing (there are
other RowColumn widgets that mwm creates.)

Note that the general case of defining these for any menu popup or
pulldown menu (not option, though) works as well; the menu does not need
to be created before these resources are set.