Motif FAQ (Part 5 of 9)

• Introduction
• 116) How do I line up two columns of widgets of different types? I
• 117) TOPIC: PUSHBUTTON WIDGET
• 118) Why can't I use accelerators on buttons not in a menu?
• 119) TOPIC: ICON WIDGET
• 120) How can I add multi-colored icons to my application?
• 121) How can I convert a Sun/GIF/TIFF image to a pixmap?
• 122) TOPIC: SCALE WIDGET
• 123) Can the XmScale widget have arrows or tick marks in Motif 2.0?
• 124) How can I set the color of a XmScale widget's trough?
• 125) TOPIC: LABEL WIDGET
• 126) How can I align the text in a label (button, etc) widget?
• 127) Why doesn't label alignment work in a RowColumn?
• 128) How can I set a multiline label?
• 129) How can I have a vertical label?
• 130) How can I have a Pixmap in a Label?
• 131) Why doesn't the XmLabel widget obey the XmNwith and XmNheight
• 132) TOPIC: DRAWING AREA WIDGET
• 133) How can I send an expose event to a Drawing Area widget? (or
• 134) How can I know when a DrawingArea has been resized? It
• 135) How can I create a drawing area widget with a non-default
• 136)+ How can I display postscript in a Motif widget, such as
• 137) TOPIC: SCROLLED WINDOW WIDGET
• 138) How do I tell if a scrolled window's scrollbars are visible?
• 139) How can I programatically scroll a XmScrolledWindow in
• 140) What widget does the XmScrolledWindow use for its clip window?
• 141) How do I create a scrolled window with only one scrollbar?
• 142) TOPIC: MENUS
• 143)+ How can I change the cursor for a menu?
• 144) How do I set the current choice in a radio box or an option
• 145) How do I make a menu choice insensitive if it was created with
• 146) What can I put inside a menu bar?
• 147) Can I have a cascade button without a submenu in a pulldown
• 148) Should I have a cascade button without a submenu in a pulldown
• 149) What is the best way to create popup menus?
• 150) How do popup menus work?
• 151) Should I use translation tables or actions for popup menus?
• 152) What are the known bugs in popup menus?
• 153) Can I have multiple popup menus on the same widget?
• 154) TOPIC: INPUT FOCUS
• 155) How can I specify the widget that should have the keyboard
• 156)+ How can I determine which widget has keyboard focus?
• 157) How can I direct the keyboard input to a particular widget?