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From: dab@esl.ESL.COM (David A. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Better "text" object than XView textsw wanted
Keywords: xview text hypertext
Message-ID: <360@esl.ESL.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 90 02:47:13 GMT
Reply-To: dab@esl.com (David A. Brown)
Organization: ESL Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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I'm writing a hypertext editor on a Sun running OpenWindows 2.0 and am
looking for X text-editing objects more powerful than Sun's "textsw".

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)

I've seen this done on a NeXT (apparently the NeXT Text object gives
you all this for free; you can insert an arbitrary graphical "cell"
anywhere in the text, and you can do font and color changes using Rich
Text format).

I'm running OpenWindows 2.0; my application is written in XView.  Does
anyone know of a solution to this problem involving enhancements to
Sun's textsw package, or else using another X object that I can
integrate into my XView code?

Thanks for your help,

- David Brown            dab@esl.com          ESL Inc., Sunnyvale, CA