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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Colorful text widgets
Message-ID: <1049@attc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 91 00:36:44 GMT
References: <17616@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <17616@csli.Stanford.EDU> knight@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bob Knight) writes:
>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.
>
   Why not use XmLabel in some box organizer (RowColumn would
   also work: Rows of Columns of Lables.

   Unless you want to do heavy editing, Label is much cheaper
  than anything else. And you can even implemnt some simplistic
   editing of your own. On many machines SetValues on the labelString
   of 20 characters is no performance problem.


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