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From: franks@coracle.cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein)
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Subject: Widget with Scroll Bar (Dumb) Question
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Date: 21 Dec 89 22:04:19 GMT
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I need to use a widget that contains text with a scroll bar,
and I'm going to need to append text to it (similar to xterm).

I'm rather confused at what type of widget to use, and how to use it.
I've tried a list widget in a viewport widget and that's fine, 
except the scroll bar doesn't seem to work until the widgets resized.
I've looked at text widgets, but I'm unclear as how to change (add)
text to it with the text sources or whatever (I'd need a string widget, 
since the data won't be on disk).

Does someone know of a good (ok, decent, fair, poor, anything) example
and what widget type(s) would be most useful?  I've looked at
xterm, but it's a bit cryptic to me.

Hope this isn't too dumb.  Reply by mail, since I've got a large backlog
of articles to read, and I doubt this is of general interest.  Thanks.

--Frank Adelstein
  franks@cis.ohio-state.edu