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From: meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks)
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Subject: Re: Selection in list widget
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Date: 11 Oct 90 14:50:03 GMT
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>From: hpcc05!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!bazavan@hplabs.hpl.hp.com  (Valentin Bazavan)
>
>There is no direct way, but it is possible. First, you have to retrieve 
>XmNselectedItems, XmNselectedItemCount, XmNitems and XmNitemCount resources 
>using XtGetValues. Then you take each item in the XmNselectedItems list
>and compare it against the XmNitems list using XmStringCompare. When a match
>occurs, the list position is the index of the matched item in the XmNitems
>list plus one.
>
>Valentin Bazavan
>vbazavan@hpdtc.hp.com
>	

In 1.0 its true that this was really the only way to get the positions of
the selected items.  In 1.1 there is a new function, XmListGetSelectedPos,
which takes a widget and returns an array of positions corresponding to the
selected items in the list.  See the man pages for more details.

W. Scott Meeks
Open Software Foundation
meeks@osf.org
(617) 621-7229