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From: frose@ (Flavio Rose)
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Subject: Panel Lists
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Date: 21 Dec 90 22:34:50 GMT
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Some questions on XView that I can't seem to figure out from
the O'Reilly manual (next step is read the source code... or
is there some other manual?).

a) Is there a way to turn off the user's ability to edit a
panel list? I want to use the list to display read-only
information.

b) Is there a way to prevent the user from selecting anything
in a panel list? Same motivation as preceding.

c) Is there a way to have a "disembodied" scroll bar in a
panel, i.e. one without a panel list attached? The idea would
be to use this scroll bar to let the user scroll information
that is displayed via the PANEL_BACKGROUND_PROC.

I realize that putting the scrolled info in a canvas is an
alternative way to accomplish my goals. Unfortunately what
I want is something like

	+---------------------+
        |     panel items     |
        | +---------+  more   |
        | |scrolling|  panel  |
        | | list    |  items  |
        | +---------+         |
        |   more panel items  |
        +---------------------+

With this geometry, if I make the scrolling list be a
canvas rather than a panel list, then I have to distribute
the panel items among three separate panels, top, right and
bottom. (Or do I?)

Any help would be most appreciated.

Yours truly,
Flavio Rose
SynOptics Communications, Inc.