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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Use of XmList widget without selection
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Date: 17 May 91 14:21:04 GMT
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> Our application has a possible use for something like the XmList widget to 
> display narrative text.  (This text is reference only, so a text widget IMHO is
> inappropriate).  The List widget comes with behavior that allows the user to 

I'm not sure why text is inappropriate.  It seems to me a readonly text widget
is exactly what you'd want.  Particularly since the user may want to select
pieces of it.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.