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From: achan@sparkle.nec.com (Amy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Can I turn off list selection?
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Date: 29 Jan 91 18:14:48 GMT
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In article <2610@meaddata.meaddata.com> sharonc%meaddata@uunet.uu.net writes:
>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.
>

If you remove all the existing translations of the list widget by
using XtUninstallTranslations(), users will not be able to do
anything with the items in the list.

Hope this helps.







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Amy Chan
NEC America, Inc., San Jose, CA
achan@tdd.sj.nec.com