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From: openlook-request@openlook
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: table fields in XView?
Message-ID: <9yvsg6m@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 14:48:47 GMT
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> In article <zuysw8w@openlook.Unify.Com>  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)
> >
> Ah, but what you are looking for does exist and is freely available.  
> Check out the Slingshot Packages, available by email from 

	Yes I see that now.  I wish it was described more clearly in
	your docs though... and an example might've been useful.
	(I *really* can't complain that much about beta software...)

	I guess you address the children of the ARRAY_TILE not
	with the usual:

		xv_set(child1,
			XV_X, xv_col(1),
			XV_Y, xv_row(2),
			NULL);
	but with:

		xv_set(arrtile,
			ARRAY_TILE_COLUMN, child1, 1,
			ARRAY_TILE_ROW,    child1, 2,
			NULL);

	In other words, you really don't position the children directly.
	Correct?

> 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.

	Ah a problem.  Will it be part of the OW 3.0 Xview?  When will
	it be OL-ish?  When will devGUIDE know about them?
	
	I can use beta software for demo purposes, but my *real* apps can't.
> 
> 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.

	How do I send bug reports?  I've found one bad one with
	one of the examples (a combo of mouse clicks hangs the server).

	Frank G.

	BTW, these Slingshot objects are great!  And the Xlib graphics
	wrappers help out a real lot with some of the application pgmrs
	around here.