| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
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I am trying to set the color attributes for items in a list box.
It seems that the list box itself will adopt the colors but the items
in it and the scroll bar won't. I saw an old note where someone
mentioned using XtNumChildren, XtChildren and DwtChildren.
They said that the Xt calls were defined in DwtPrivate.h. Well,
I encluded DwtPrivate.h and called XtChildren. There seem to be
compilation errors in the header file.
So, my questions are :
1. is this call documented in formal Digital documentation?
(I can't find it anywhere, and I don't really want to use
unsupported calls.)
2. will this call do the trick?
Thanks
Rachael Barlow
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2987.1 | setting color attr. of ListBoxItem | RTL::JUNE | Mon Jun 25 1990 15:52 | 19 | |
XtChildren and XtNumChildren are Intrinsics routines (actually macros) and are documented in the current (R4) Intrinsics manual. They are functionally equivalent to the routines DwtChildren and DwtNumChildren, which are documented on pages 3-4 and 3-9 of the Toolkit Routines Reference Manual (Oct. 1989 version). > I saw an old note where someone mentioned using XtNumChildren, > XtChildren and DwtChildren..... This note probably referred to an indirect method of setting the colors of each list item. In a list box, each item is actually a pushbutton gadget (or maybe widget - I'm not sure) child of the list box. So, it is theoretically possible to traverse the list of children obtained through the routines above, checking each one to see if it is a pushbutton and setting its colors if so. Whether or not this method is supported or may have unwanted side effects is another matter. Rich | |||||
| 2987.2 | MARX::BARLOW | Mon Jun 25 1990 17:12 | 2 | ||
thanks for the info.
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