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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: popup menu widgeT
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Date: 9 Feb 89 16:41:40 GMT
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> I wish to find out if there are any public-domain X Toolkit-
> compatible menu widgets already available...

> I saw one in X.V11R3/contrib/widgets/MenuBox, but haven't tried it 
> out yet. If you have, I would appreciate your comments on it.

This is the best (only) free widget I have seen that works well with Xaw.
I have not used it myself but have talked to someone who developed an 
application using it.  He seemed to think it worked quite well.

> Another possibility that occurred to us is to look at the code
> for implementing menus in awm & twm window-managers, but it would
> be hard to figure things out there in absence of any documentation. 

These are currently not using the XToolkit and fixing them so that the work
well in the domain of Xt would be quite a task (I think).

The Hp widget set also has menus, you may want to take a look at them also.

						Chris D. Peterson     
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