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From: bazavan@hpdtczb.HP.COM (Valentin Bazavan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Selection Box buttons
Message-ID: <17100009@hpdtczb.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 91 15:46:52 GMT
References: <nana.668717787@opal>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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> Hi netters:
> 
> Is there anyway to add additional push buttons to a Selection Box widget?
> 
> In Motif 1.1, the Selection box comes with the standard three (OK, HELP,
> CANCEL).  If it is a child of a Dialog Shell, an additional button, APPLY
> is available.  This is not the case with our application (unfortunately -
> we need more buttons!).
> 
> Any help appreciated greatly
> Ana

Here are a couple of suggestions.

You are allowed to add a work area as a child 
of the selection box. The work area could be 
a row column manager with as many buttons as you wish.
The only problem with this approach is that you 
can't control the placement of the work area widget.

You can make the selection box the child of a form 
(or form dialog, if appropriate) and add any number
of buttons you need. In this case you have full
control of button positioning. (You will not be
able to place your buttons in line with those
provided by the selection box, though. If this
is what you want, you will have to unmanage all
selection box buttons and replace them with your
own.)

Valentin Bazavan
vbazavan@hpdtc.hp.com