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From: cl@lgc.com (Cameron Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Is position n selected?
Keywords: XmList, position, selected
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Date: 18 Apr 91 21:29:04 GMT
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Two paragraphs of background:  I still don't have a refined
X spirituality, or all the references I need (two distinct
items).  Finding which functions, resources, and so on, are
standard, and which are not, constantly surprises me.

'Pologize if this is in the FAQ.  I still haven't *seen* the
FAQ.

My question:  how do I write

	BOOL XmListPosSelected_p(listWidget, position)

	Widget listWidget;
	int position;
	{
			/* The entry is selected ... */
		if (...)
			return TRUE;
		else
			return FALSE;
	}

?  Here are my observations:
1.  this is only significant for MULTIPLE_SELECT XmLists;
2.  the only way I see to do this involves writing my own
    handler, in some callback, to store away the current
    state of the selections; but
3.  this information *must* be available in some (lower-
    level?) resources; it sure looks to me as though the
    window manager knows which items are selected, and
    which aren't.

Do you understand my question?  Is there a clean way to
answer it?  Is there a standard way?
--

Cameron Laird				+1 713-579-4613
cl@lgc.com (cl%lgc.com@uunet.uu.net)	+1 713-996-8546