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From: jh@ist.CO.UK (Jeremy Huxtable)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: XmListDeleteItemsPos bug??
Message-ID: <2899@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 7 May 91 09:50:13 GMT
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References: <54456@inkwell.UUCP>
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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From article <54456@inkwell.UUCP>, by jhc@ivan.uucp:
> I am experiencing occasional crashes in XmListDeleteItemsPos.  Is there
> a known bug in this function?

One bug, though possibly the one you are looking for is that when the bottom
element of the list is visible and you call XmListDeleteXXX, the List
widget gets its display one line out of whack with where it thinks it is.
To get round this, we had to resort to horrible manipulations using
XmListSetBottomPos and so on. I think the same problem applies to
XmListAddItemXXX.

...and another thing... why isn't there an XmList routine to just make the
current selection visible? You can make the selection the top or bottom
item, but not just make sure that it is visible....

...and another thing... why can't I have a list of things other than strings,
such as icons, mixtures of text and pictures etc?

...and another thing, why can't I have a multi-column list? Having programmed
the Macintosh, I am amazed how difficult it is to do things under Motif which
are trivial in the Mac environment. Were the widgets designed by committee?

...shall I mention XmRowColumn? I think not.