Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucselx!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Better "text" object than XView textsw wanted Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 90 02:27:04 GMT References: <360@esl.ESL.COM> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 26 In-reply-to: dab@esl.ESL.COM's message of 20 Nov 90 02:47:13 GMT In article <360@esl.ESL.COM> dab@esl.ESL.COM (David A. Brown) writes: I'm mostly interested in: - Displaying icons/glyphs which can flow with the text (to use as hypertext "tags") - Having fancy control over text coloring, fonts or background color (e.g. to be able to "highlight" like a highlighting marker) How about an Andrew text object? Look at the toolkit in X11R4/contrib/toolkits/andrew. The Andrew text widget is a styled text editor, modelled after emacs as far as its keystrokes go, but with reasonable mouse support as well. Font styles are supported, and highlighting is provided. Embedded objects can be placed in the flow of the text, and they can be any kind of Andrew dataobject: more text, pictures, bitmaps, spreadsheets, animations, file reference buttons, etc. Arbitrary spans can be defined on the text, so it becomes quite handy for hypertext work. I can tell you more about mixing it with XView if you're interested. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304