Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!tse!cont1
From: cont1@tse.uucp (Contractor #1 = Tim Horton)
Subject: inserting large string into popped up text widget ... goes nuts
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.022240.13828@tse.uucp>
Sender: cont1@tse.uucp
Reply-To: tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu
Organization: Toronto Stock Exchange
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 02:22:40 GMT

Is there any way to avoid this? ...

In motif 1.0, if a text widget is popped up, and I set it's string value
to something relatively long, it *slowly* *gracelessly* resizes itself
to accomodate the string.  For example, a scrolled text widget will go
through the string value from top to bottom, figuring out the number of
lines and the size of each line, and after *each* line it resets/redraws
the scrollbars (or rather, the scrolling widget around the text widget
gets a resize notification from the text widget after each line is processed,
causing the scrollbars to be reset/redrawn each time).  Anyways...

THIS IS RIDICULOUS.  From time to time I have a 400 line chunk of text to
stuff in.  The behavior looks ridiculous, it takes a *minute* or so, and
meanwhile the application is basically hung.  The code:

     XmTextSetString(myTextWidget, bigString);   /* wow! */

Does this seem slightly bizarre to anyone else but me?  Is it time for me
to turn in my .Xdefaults, for good?  Is there really a higher bitplane?
When you can't have X anymore, is there anything left to life?

For these and other answers, thanks in advance,
tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu
(alias cont1@tse.uucp)