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From: sharonc@meaddata.com (Sharon Crichton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Can I turn off list selection?
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Date: 28 Jan 91 19:59:32 GMT
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Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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Hello all. I have a situation where I need to display a list of
items but just for informational purposes. Users cannot do anything
with the items in the list, so I would like to turn off selection.
I have tried to fake it out with a scrollable text widget (I need
both horizontal and vertical scrolling) by setting all of the
resource values (i.e. XmNeditable to false, XmNcursorPositionVisible
to false, etc.) But that still did not prevent me from dragging my
mouse over the text and having it highlighted. Even though nothing
can be done with the text once it is highlighted.

So what I would like to do is set the XmNselectionPolicy on my
list widget to something like NULL, so that the users cannot select
items. If that's not possible, I'd like to know how I can turn
off mouse selection/highlighting on a text widget.

I'm currently using Motif 1.1 under X11/R4.

Thanks in advance to all who would offer help!

Sharon Crichton				CDS Systems Evolution
sharonc@meaddata.com			Mead Data Central
sharonc%meaddata@uunet.uu.net		P.O. Box 933
					Dayton, OH 45401
Quoth the Raven,
"Eat my shorts!"