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From: meeks@osf.org (W. Scott Meeks)
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Subject: Re: Help building table of text/label widgets
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Date: 11 Dec 90 19:39:50 GMT
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>From: comtst!mdv@uunet.uu.net  (Mike Verstegen)
>
>I'm trying to build a table that looks like this with about 10 rows
>of a label plus three columns of data as shown below.
>
>                 Col1Hdg    Col2Hdg    Col3Hdg
>Row1Label       R1C1data   R1C2data   R1C3data
>Row2Label       R2C1data   R2C2data   R2C3data
>Row3Label       R3C1data   R3C2data   R3C3data
>...
>
>Note that the Row labels and column headings are of differing width
>than each other and different than the width of the data.
>
>

How about:

XmRowColumn with XmNorientation = XmHORIZONTAL where each item in the RC
is another XmVERTICAL XmRowColumn containing each column of information.
So the first column would contain a blank label and then each of the
RowXLabel labels.  The second column would contain Col1Hdg and then
RXC1data and so on.  This will let you align each column of data however
you like yet allow each column to be a different width and even change
width if the longest entry changes size.  

Hope this helps.  Let me know if you have any questions.

. Scott Meeks
Open Software Foundation
meeks@osf.org
(617) 621-7229