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From: carl@gemini.UUCP (carl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: XmList problem
Keywords: List widget, convenience functions
Message-ID: <770@gemini.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 23:41:32 GMT
Reply-To: portal!gemini!carl (carl)
Organization: OCS Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Hi out there. I have a problem with the List widget that perhaps someone
out there can help with: There are numerous _convenience_ functions
(OSF/Motif developers - please go to your nearest dictionary and look
that word up) for selected items. You can unselect some or all (how USEFUL)
but that apparently does nothing more than turn off the hilite. What good is
that? How come there isn't a function to DELETE the selected items from the
list. Now THAT would be useful. The problem that I am experiencing is even
after retrieving the selectedItems and selectedItemCount resources, I cannot
use the returned values as arguments to XmListDeleteItem(). Is this just a
bug in 1.1? 
Also, I have a list widget on a bulletin board, and I want to change its' 
x/y position via XtSetValues(). This also does not work. Is the documentation
wrong where it says that the position CAN be changed with SetValues?
Thanks for your help.
BTW, If Motif is any indication, imagine what an operation system produced 
by OSF will be like :-)!
carl.