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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView text display question
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Date: 14 Dec 90 14:14:12 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> In my XView application I would like to display multiple lines of static
> text ... i.e. text to be viewed and not edited. What are my options?
> 
	1. Read Only Text Subwindows with your own event proc that ignores
	   mouse/keyboard events.  For multi-line static, one-font, one-color
	   text, this is the easiest.  Comes with (splittable/joinable) scrolling
	   for free.

	2. Panel Messages.  One line per.

	3. Read Only Panel Text items.  One line per.

	4. Canvas with either:
		a.) Xview style repainting
		b.) Xlib style repainting
		c.) If you have OpenWindows, NeWS-style (ie, Postscript) repainting

		This is the most flexible, but the most work (actually its
		not *that* much work, just more than the previous choices).



	Frank G.

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