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From: chris@flood.com (Chris Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Need a text-handling panel item for XView
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.022418.6561@flood.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 02:24:18 GMT
Sender: root@flood.com (Operator)
Organization: The Flood Group, Inc.  Lawndale, Ca.
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Does anyone know of an existing panel item "package" for XView that will
provide me the following basic capabilities?

1) A scrollable subwindow in which arbitrary text can be displayed.
2) The text is passed as a pointer to a buffer - line wrap should be
   automatic.
3) The text can be "selected" for a copy operation, but otherwise
   user interaction is limited to scrolling.

The existing scrolling list package is inappropriate, because it fails
2) above and because there seems to be no way to totally disable the
selection logic.

I believe the text-subwindow package can be coerced to perform the
desired user interaction, but I'm not clear on how it could be worked
into a panel.  Has anyone done this?

Any ideas out there?

Thanks.

-Chris


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