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From: knight@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bob Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Colorful text widgets
Message-ID: <17616@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 91 00:50:13 GMT
Organization: Barton Industries ITSD, Santa Fe, NM
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I need a widget that will hold text in row/column format and will
support multiple colors in each of the cells.  Something that's
spreadsheet-like with color would be ideal.

Is there a widget in a toolkit out there that already does this
(so that I can avoid rolling my own)?  The alternatives I see right
now are using a XmRowColumn widget with a bunch of XmText widget children,
or putting the text on the window explicitly.

We're using Motif on HP 9000s, if that makes any difference.

This is my first foray into X hacking, so if there's a better way,
I'd sure like to hear about it before I start off in the wrong direction.

Any suggestions, hunks-o-code, or whatever would be greatly appreciated.
Please e-mail responses, as I don't get direct access to the news.

Thanx,
Patrick H. Madden (from Bob Knight's account)
knight@sfi.santafe.edu
or pickle@sfi.santafe.edu
--I'll have on my sombrero, and of course I'll wear a pair of Levis
--over my lead BVDs.