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From: toh@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: re: popup menu widget..
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Date: 26 Feb 89 02:46:00 GMT
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Crap. Our broken Pnews strikes again. Another message garbled..
To repeat myself:

>> 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).

Amen. I can definately recommend against using the menus that awm
uses as they are no where near Xt based. Actually it is the intent here
to make awm use the toolkit and Athena widgets for everything in the near
future. Lack of a suitable menu widget is the main impediment here too!

				Jordan Hubbard
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