Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!fernwood!quorum.com!chavez
From: chavez@quorum.com (R. Martin Chavez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: XmDrawingArea and XmForm: hybrid widget sought
Summary: I need to be able to render directly into a Form.
Keywords: XmDrawingArea, XmForm
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.213929.28775@quorum.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:39:29 GMT
Sender: news@quorum.com
Organization: Quorum Software Systems, Inc.
Lines: 17
Nntp-Posting-Host: entelechy

For complicated reasons to difficult to describe in detail, I need to be
able to render with DPS and Xlib into an XmForm widget.  I don't want to
obliterate the XmForm's children (buttons and labels), but I do need to
render graphics around them.

Nothing stops me from rendering into a form's X window, but the widget
isn't set up to give me access to expose callbacks.  I would really like
to have an XmDrawingArea as a child of the form, but I need to have the
other widgets (such as an XmPushButtonGadget) lie ON TOP of the
XmDrawingArea.  It seems to me that the Xm toolkit lays out the children
widgets so that they don't overlap.

Any recommendations?

Many thanks,
R. Martin Chavez
Quorum Software Systems, Inc.