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644.0. "Tough Cookie for DECWINDOW Gurus" by AIAG::SURESH (Suresh) Thu Apr 20 1989 12:59

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AIAG::SURESH "Suresh"                                26 lines  20-APR-1989 11:53
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 A tough cookie for the DECWINDOW gurus

  What I would like to is this:-

     In a scrollable widget, I would like to display some application
      messages and also keep the previous messages. I could probably
      use a list-box or a text widget to do this.

 1)  The problem with list box is that it does not allow multi-line items.
      Also list-box does not allow duplicate items. By "allow" in both cases
      I mean it does not deal with them correctly.

 2)  The problem with a non-editable text widget is the following:-
      After the first message is put into the text widget, to display
       the next message you can either 
     a) replace (s-text-set-string) the first message 
     b) know the length of the first message and add the second message
        to the end of the first message (s-text-replace)
     
      In both the cases we are dealing with a single string. My question is
      Is it possible for a text widget to contain more than one independent
      string? If not is there any other widgets that would allow this? 

 I would welcome any suggestions
      

Try the VLIST widget mentioned in the DW_EXAMPLES conference.

John