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From: uucigj@gandalf.sbc.com (Gregg Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Overlapping widgets?
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Date: 16 Nov 90 19:01:06 GMT
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I was wondering if it was possible to stack one widget (say a button
or a series of buttons) on top of another widget (say a vt100 widget)?
I would like to make a simple/quick front end to an existing app
without changing the existing app.  The access to the app is via a
modem dial up and the display is on a workstation that is running X.
The app has its menu stretched across the top of the screens (you
select by first letter and it executes that option) and there is also
a command line at the bottom.  I want show the screen as normal on the
vt100/xterm widget (what is between the top line and the bottom line)
and have a series of buttons across the top that they could push for
the corresponding command.  Thus when they pushed the button the
program would send the appropriate key just like the user was typing
it into the app itself.  I would want to do the same for the command
line at the bottom.  Is this possible? any hints?  Is this unclear?