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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Adding borders to Motif'ized Table Widget
Message-ID: <1039@attc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 91 17:09:27 GMT
References: <4@oriel.UUCP>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <4@oriel.UUCP> gardner@oriel.ww.com (Phillip E. Gardner) writes:
>I got a version of the Table widget from Kee Hinckley.  This version
>works great with Motif!  I am wandering how I ever lived without it!
>
>I would like to extend it so that it provides borders around the
>cells.  For my needs, I only need it to either put a single-line
>border around EVERY cell or to not put ANY borders.  Implementing
>something as fancy as occurs in Microsoft's Word (Mac) would be
>better, however.
>
>Before I spend much time doing this, I thought it would be best to
>ask for ideas.  If you have any ideas, please let me know.
>

    You can have borders if you use Widgets:
    table*borderWidth:  1
    table.borderWidth:  0

    However, IF you are using Motif Gadgets, you have a problem:
    Motif gadgets do NOT support border !

    I *think* OSF is looking into this. If they DO FIX gadgets, then
    there is NOTHING to do with the Table widget.
    If they don't fix Motif ....

    I am principally oposed to making widgets DO things that they don't
    have to. For example all those Motif resources like XmNentryBorder
    are a big bullshit. 
    Using resource files properly, you can get the same result WITHOUT
    an explicit code in the widget. Thus the XmNentryBorder resource
    is redundant, useless and only unnnecessarily making a widget
    overly complex. (note thet even using XmNentryBorder in Motif
    manager does not create a border around a gadget ).


    Back to your suggestion. If you want some more fancy border, such
    as Motif 3D outlines, I believe that the RIGHT way to do it is
    either using outlines built into components, or implementing
    a lightweight composite BorderWidget (unfortunatelly, R4 got rid
    of a composite object - we could have a BorderGadget ).
    But I'd leave the Tab widget to do geometry management, not graphics.
    Though this is just my opinion...

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