Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!dba+ From: dba+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (David Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Is "ez" available as a widget in Andrew? Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 20:32:16 GMT References: <9105202245.AA03194@garlic.intellicorp.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 20-May-91 Is "ez" available as a widg.. Nils Davis@garlic.intell (823) > I don't read this list and haven't looked at Andrew for 1.5 years, so > please excuse my ignorance. No problem. > I have an application where I'd like to display some text, with > different sorts of properties on the text like bolding and > italicizing, and I'd like the user to be able to click on a boldfaced > word and have something happen. I was wondering if the Andrew toolkit > could help me out with this. Sure, this would be straightforward to do by either using or subclassing the ATK text object. The chlist object (in andrew/atk/champ/) does something similar to what you're looking for. > At this point I don't know anything about Andrew, and before I > downloaded the whole thing, I thought I'd find out if my idea is > feasible. Is Andrew based on Xt? No. > Can I combine Andrew widgets with > those from other Xt-based toolkits? No. There has been some talk at times about writing a wrapper that would allow ATK objects to stand in as Xt or motif widgets, but it hasn't happened yet. > Is there an Andrew interface > builder? Yes. (It's called ADEW, and it is part of our distribution.) > Please reply by mail -- I don't subscribe to info-andrew. --david