Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!gazooch.Eng.Sun.COM!brianw From: brianw@gazooch.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Warkentine) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: table fields in XView? Message-ID: <14621@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Jun 91 01:15:58 GMT References: Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 39 In article writes: >> Has anyone implemeted a table field in Xview? >> By table field, I mean a 'list' with multiple >> columns and rows and perhaps lines in between these >> columns and rows. > > You're not the only one wanting this one. There's > a whole lot of Xview pgmrs in NYC that want it. > (a bonafide Xview object, not a separate API) > > Frank G. Ah, but what you are looking for does exist and is freely available. Check out the Slingshot Packages, available by email from archive-server@gazooch.Eng.Sun.COM. To get the entire distribution, put the following lines in the body of the message: send sspkg part01 part02 part03 part04 part05 send sspkg part06 part07 part08 part09 part10 send sspkg part11 part12 part13 part14 part15 The Slingshot Packages are a set of XView extensions that include a layout manager called an Array_tile. The Array_tile positions objects such as text, icons, and arbitrary combinations of other Slingshot objects, in a two dimensional array. It has some other interesting objects, but that is not what you're asking for. There are some caveats: It is beta quality (but there have been very few bugs reported since it was released) and it is not very openlook-ish. The distribution will remain on the archive server until it is released over one of the sources groups. I had planned to close beta and send it off sometime next week, but my current job situation may push this back a bit. -brianw