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From: scl@sasha.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Losen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: XmCreateFileSelectionDialog question
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Date: 22 Apr 91 22:06:56 GMT
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I have recently snarfed a program that uses the XmCreateFileSelectionDialog
function.  I'm no X or motif programmer, so please bear with me.  I
have determined that this call opens up a window that allows the user to
type a pattern into a "filter" box, push the "Filter" button and a
scrolled window fills with filenames matching the pattern.  The user
can then select a filename in the scrolled window and click the "OK"
button to select the file.  Then this widget disappears.

This is very useful, but there's one problem -- whenever the widget
pops up it is always initialized with a default pattern, usually forcing
the user to retype his pattern.  It would be much more convenient (in
this application, at least) for the pattern to be saved between calls.
In the code the default pattern string is being passed to
XmCreateFileSelectionDialog.  My question is this:  Is there any way to
get the user-modified pattern string back from this widget so that it
can be passed to the next call to XmCreateFileSelectionDialog?  Or is
there some other way to get the behavior I want?

This is on a IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.1.3.  Motif comes with the
system, but I believe it is version 1.0  (based on X11.3).

Please respond by email since I don't ordinarily read this group.
-- 
Steve Losen                     scl@virginia.edu

University of Virginia Academic Computing Center