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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Layout "cookbook"
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.060445.3919@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 9 Feb 91 06:04:45 GMT
Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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For some reason, I have the tendency to pick fairly difficult layouts
in my programs.  My first substantial Motif effort needed a good
way to layout a set of name/value pairs in aligned columns without
the fonts having to be the same.

I believe that it would be very helpful to programmers to have a sort
of a cookbook containing various layouts and information on how to
do them.  The book would contain screen-shots of the layout in
different shapes and sizes (where applicable), a description of
the problem, the solution (including widget hierarchy and resources),
and a discussion of any potential problems.

If there's interest, I'd be glad to be a repository for the data
(or I could try to convince Kee to volunteer ;-) to get this started.