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From: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Need a text-handling panel item for XView
Message-ID: <9102130049.AA22589@fis1.shearson.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 00:49:08 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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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.

	Why must it be a panel item?  You could merely position the TEXTSW
	near the PANEL to visually connect the two.  Am I missing something?
> 
> 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.

	Well yes, a scrolling list is inappropriate.  FYI, you can
	disable the selection logic by writing your own event proc.
	
> 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?

	I would use a *readonly* TEXTSW (i.e., set TEXTSW_BROWSING to TRUE)
	and load the thing with:

	xv_set(mytsw, TEXTSW_CONTENTS, "my arbitrary string", NULL);


	Any Help?

	Frank G.