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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: grid widget in X?
Message-ID: <2996@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 18:42:55 GMT
References: <1199@ttds.UUCP>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <1199@ttds.UUCP> jonasn@ttds.UUCP (Jonas Nygren) writes:
>I am looking for a widget that implements a spread-sheet, like a grid
>of text-widgets. Text-widgets should have justification attributes
>and the grid-widget should scroll if it's larger than the window. 

I don't know of a single widget that does this, but it is fairly easy to
do using existing widgets.  Create an array of text widgets (with
whatever justification attributes you want) and put them in a form
widget, using the form layout attributes to line them up.  Put the form
in a viewport widget, which handles scrolling.  I did this for an
application with a small grid (about 20 rows by 10 columns) and it
worked fine.  If you have a very large grid, however, you may not want
to realize all the widgets at once (that could cause performance and/or
memory problems).  You could try modifying the form widget to only
realize the visibile text widgets.
-- 
Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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