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From: dmh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Darren Hosking)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: table widget
Message-ID: <4056@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 23 Oct 90 09:28:43 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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I want to display a table of items with each column separated by a vertical
bar. The way I have done it is to use an AsciiText widget (Athena) with tabs
set at the beginning of each column (using XawTextSinkSetTabs). I have drawn
the column separators in a pixmap the size of the AsciiText widget and set it
as a background pixmap.

The problem is that tab erases the column separator that it crosses. Also, if
I don't use tab and use space to get to the correct position the column
separator is also erased.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is there a better solution?

	Thanks in advance, dmh

ps BTW, is there a specific widget which will do all the above for me (ie a
table widget)?

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