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From: hammy@bagheera.ctt.bellcore.com (John G. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Newline character in labelString
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Date: 28 Sep 90 13:29:37 GMT
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This is not an answer to the problem of putting a newline into a
labelstring, just
a related issue that I've found somewhat annoying.

I have a number of single line text items in an application.  I set
multilineedit
false.  Fine - the <CR> works as I expect, it doesn't get entered into
the text.
But <LF> gets put into the value,
causing the text already in the text item to scroll up, and hence become
invisible.  Since this is a single line text item, I don't want to add a scroll
bar to get at the previous line(s).  Why doesn't the text item ignore all
characters that might cause it to become multi-line when not in multilineedit?
The solution I use is simple, but shouldn't be necessary (modifyverifycallback
checks whether added text contains any character that might cause this, and
sets doit to false).  Is this a known bug, a "feature", or am I missing
something?

John.
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John G. Smith   	email : hammy@ctt.bellcore.com
RRC 1H-213       	phone : (201) 699-4530