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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XView OPEN FILE commands
Message-ID: <9010191537.AA02038@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 15:37:33 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Ken Johnson writes:

> Is there a standard XView open file dialog?  If someone has written one
> I'd appreciate getting a copy.


See pages 193 to 196 in the OPEN LOOK style guide[%].  You should be able
to crib the code from the XView textedit client (xview2/contrib/textedit).

[%] OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Style Guidelines
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
    Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1989
    ISBN 0-201-52364-7 ($24.95)

		Chris Flatters

PS. The OPEN LOOK style guide is worth reading even if you aren't working
with an OPEN LOOK toolkit -- it contains a lot of common-sense visual
design ideas.