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From: brianw@gazooch.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Warkentine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: table fields in XView?
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Date: 9 Jun 91 23:54:29 GMT
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In article <9yvsg6m@openlook.Unify.Com> openlook-request@openlook writes:
>
>	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...)
>

The documentation is known to be evil at this point.  There are two (code)
examples of the ARRAY_TILE though, one of which I will beef up to
be blatantly obvious.  


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

Correct.  The ARRAY_TILE is a "geometry manager" in the sense that it 
implements policy for positioning its children.  XV_X and XV_Y aren't very 
useful because the position is determined by the ARRAY_TILE_ROW and 
ARRAY_TILE_COLUMN.  In fact, the ARRAY_TILE is a little too forceful about 
it's children:  attempts to set a child's XV_X or XV_Y are ignored.


>	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 real problem is that this is unsupported software -- one reason the
source is being made available.  It is not planned as a product and 
only during occasional late evenings and weekends does any progress get
made on them.


>	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).

Send bug reports to slingshot-packages@gazooch.Eng.Sun.COM.  A hanging
server is pretty serious, please send a description.


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

Thanks for the testimonial!

-brian
brian.warkentine@Eng.Sun.COM