Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!emcard!stiatl!meo
From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Geometry management philosophy/procedure
Keywords: text widget,terminal widget,lines vs pixels
Message-ID: <2639@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 14:54:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
Lines: 20

In article <8901112355.AA18650@DORA.MIT.EDU> kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) writes:
>> Another feature I would like that complicates things a little more is
>> have my text widget be a fixed number of lines in height instead of a
>> fixed number of pixels.
>
>The "right" solution is to be able to specify the height of the text widget
>in lines as well as pixels, but since the Athena text widget does not
>let you do this you must either hack it in, or do something like the following:

This will certainly work; I used it until we ran into yet another stone wall
in the text widget. So we have written a replacement. It doesn't have all
the capability of the textWidget (ie, cut/paste, etc) yet; we just adds as
we goes. I suggest writing a macro or function that you pass a widget or
part of it's data structure, and the # of lines you want, that returns the
proper # of pixels. I can't get to mine right now, as we are downgrading
our OS (sigh), but if you want, I can send the macros & functions. Just drop
me email.

-Miles
(gatech!stiatl!meo)