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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Is there a pushpin capability in Motif?
Message-ID: <1270@attc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 91 04:03:51 GMT
References: <93120@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1338@glinda.ctron.com>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
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Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <1338@glinda.ctron.com> smith@glinda.ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
>>One nice feature in Openlook is the pushpin for menus and popup windows.
>>Is there any convenient way to simulate this feature in Motif?
>
>In a word - No.  The Motif style guide has nothing to say on the subject
>and the toolkit has no support for it.  At Cabletron we implemented
>the pushpins ourselves for Spectrum, but it was EXTREMELY nontrivial.

   May be your design. My design is almost trivial. The real issue is
   the Motif style compliancy. Another issue is an application, as
   I believe it needs to know whether a popup is "pinned down" or not.

   Yet another issue is who should do it. OL uses the window manager
   implementation - the application knows nothing about pushpins.
   In my opinion, making the WM do everything possible (remember
   proposals to put menu cascades into WM ?) is not right - let the
   toolkit people contribute -).



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