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From: arne@yc.estec.nl (Arne Lundberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Message boxes and other questions
Message-ID: <1014@esatst.yc.estec.nl>
Date: 29 Mar 89 14:50:50 GMT
Reply-To: arne@yc.estec.nl (Arne Lundberg)
Organization: ESTEC/YCV, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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I have some questions about the X toolkit and the HP X widgets.


1) I would like to have a function that displays a message box on the
   screen containing several pushbuttons.  And returns back to the
   calling function an indication of which button the user pressed.  I
   would like to use this for asking questions of the type

	------------------------------- 
        | 'Are yoy sure?  (YES) (NO)  |
	-------------------------------

   and get the answer back in a single function call.

   I can get the box and the buttons etc on the screen.  The problem is
   that I have to exit the function in order to come back to XtMainLoop
   and at that moment I don't which button the user will press.

   Is this possible to do?  How?

   I have previosly done some programming with HP's XrLib for X10 and
   in that library was built for this way of usage.
   
2) I want to have a bitmap created by bitmap(1) #included in my program
   and converted to a XImage suitable for use with the static raster
   widget.  How is this done?

3) I am using the pulldown menu manager of the HP X widgets.  Using this
   menu manager I can create 'pullright' submenus for all menupanes
   except the first one.  Is this a known limitation in the X widgets?


Thanks in advance for all help.

-- Arne Lundberg; ESTEC/YCV, The Netherlands
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