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From: rgcote@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Rob Cote)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text widget problems (bugs??)
Message-ID: <5327@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 88 23:58:19 GMT
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Reply-To: rgcote@mit-vax.UUCP (Rob Cote)
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge
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I am having problems with the Athena text widget. I have tried a number of
different ways of trying to get the text widget to perform according to the
"X Toolkit Athena Widgets -- C Language Interface" document, but it doesn't.

The first problem is that the following code (I have omitted obvious
things like setting argn to zero. This is just a sample.):

  XtSetArg(arg[argn], XtNtextOptions, scrollVertical);
  SummaryWindowText = XtCreateManagedWidget("MyWidget", asciiStringWidgetClass,
					    toplevel, arg, argn);

does *not* create a widget with a vertical scrollbar. The documentation states
that:
"scrollVertical		Puts a scroll bar on the left side of the window."
It just creates a standard text widget.

Also, the textoption scrollOnOverflow claims to "automatically scroll text up
when new text is entered below the bottom (last) line." I am trying to turn
this off. I create a text widget and look at the textoptions value. It is 0,
meaning none of the options are set. Yet when I do a XtTextReplace and there
is no more room in the window, it scrolls the text up and performs the insert
instead of not performing the insert at all. I asked an X consortium person 
(face to face) whether I could turn this off and he said no. The text widget 
won't let you. Why does this text option exist if it isn't really an option?? 

An email response is preferred. Thanks for any help rendered.-- 
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