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From: ksall@cen.com (Ken Sall)
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Subject: Motif FAQ (Part 1 of 9)
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Motif FAQ
[Last changed: 07 AUGUST 95]
This article contains the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
often seen in comp.windows.x.motif. It is posted to help reduce volume in
this newsgroup and to provide hard-to-find information of general interest.
This FAQ is maintained by Ken Sall (ksall@cen.com) of Century Computing, Inc.
http://www.cen.com/
You can obtain the most recent version of this FAQ via anonymous ftp from
a server which will seldom refuse you access. Try any of these URLs:
ftp://ftp.cen.com/pub/Motif-FAQ or
ftp://ftp.cen.com/pub/Motif-FAQ.gz or
ftp://ftp.cen.com/pub/Motif-FAQ.Z
[For the un-Webified amongst you, try anonymous ftp from ftp.cen.com,
and get the file /pub/Motif-FAQ, etc.]
I also maintain a WWW page called "MW3: Motif on the World Wide Web" at:
http://www.cen.com/mw3/
For an overview of MW3, see the subject "Is there a central location for
Motif information on the WWW?"
Send FAQ and MW3 updates and corrections to ksall@cen.com. It would help if
the subject line contained the phrase "For Motif FAQ".
Web'sters: There are several locations of HTML versions of the Motif FAQ
and related FAQs of interest:
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/comp.windows.x.motif.html
Oxford University's Libraries Automation Service: Motif FAQ
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_group.comp.html
Oxford University's LAS: FAQs for all of the comp.* newsgroups
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_group.comp.windows.x.html
Oxford University's LAS: FAQs for all of the comp.windows.x.* newsgroups
http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/windows/x/motif
SUNSite Northern Europe
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
Utrecht University, the Netherlands: Search all FAQs at once!
This is particularly useful since it's possible the answer you're
looking for is in another FAQ (X, Xt, Widgets FAQ, Xapps, etc.)
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/motif-faq/.html
Utrecht University: Motif FAQ
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/motif-faq/top.html
Ohio State U's automatically generated version
http://www.smartpages.com/bngfaqs/comp/windows/x/motif/top.html
Tom Fine's Internet Answers Collection
All are searchable except Ohio State's. Thanks to fellow FAQ maintainer
Nancy McGough of Infinite Ink (http://www.jazzie.com/ii/) for adding to my list.
[Note that I do not control any of these HTML versions; they are created from
the ASCII version which I post to comp.windows.x.motif and news.answers.]
*** NOTE ***
If you don't understand the above "http://" notation, see the subject:
"What is an URL?"
In some cases, I've repeated information in different contexts to make
these details a bit easier to find.
This article includes answers to the questions listed below. Key:
+ questions NEW to this issue;
* CHANGES since last issue.
*** CAVEAT ***
If an answer does not have a "Last modified" date, it's possible the
information may no longer be accurate. Modification dates go back to
August 1992. More than half the answers have such a modification date.
Note also that the older the "Last modified" date, the more likely
the information may be suspect. Pay close attention to version
information discussed in answers, since the information may pertain
only to that specific release.
This posting is copyright (c) 1995 by Kenneth B. Sall of Century Computing, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission is hereby granted to read and distribute this
posting for non-commercial purposes. Permission to use this material for any
other purpose must first be obtained in writing from the author.
Questions:
- 0) TOPIC: SUBMITTING SUGGESTIONS, CORRECTIONS, NEW ANSWERS
- 1) TOPIC: WHAT IS MOTIF?
- 2) What is Motif and how does it relate to the X Toolkit and X Window Sys-
tem?
- 3)* TOPIC: OTHER RELEVANT NEWSGROUPS
- 4) TOPIC: FAQ and NEWSGROUP FTP ARCHIVES
- 5) Is the FAQ available via FTP?
- 6)* Is this FAQ accessible via WWW?
- 7) What is an URL? Are "ftp://", "http://", and "gopher://" typos?
- 8) Where can I find other FAQs related to Motif or X11?
- 9) Is this newsgroup accessible via email?
- 10) Is this newsgroup archived?
- 11) Is the mail list motif-talk archived?
- 12) TOPIC: OSF, MOTIF and COSE
- 13) How can I contact OSF?
- 14) What versions of Motif are there?
- 15) Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.0?
- 16) What are the details about new features in Motif 2.0?
- 17) Where can I find Motif 2.0 documentation?
- 18) Where can I get Motif?
- 19) Is there a list of Motif bugs?
- 20) Where can I get a Motif 1.2 Certification Checklist?
- 21) What is COSE and how does it relate to Motif?
- 22) Is there a CDE FAQ or newsgroup?
- 23) What is PST?
- 24) Does OSF's PST process impact CDE evolution?
- 25) Because of COSE, is Motif now in the public domain?
- 26) What is DCE?
- 27) What is WebWare? DCE Web? WebMail? Ariadne? OreO? Group Server?
- 28) Where can I get public domain Motif source?
- 29) Are Motif code examples publically available?
- 30) Has anyone done a public domain Motif lookalike?
- 31) Does anyone from OSF pay attention to our questions/suggestions?
- 32) Does OSF have an application compliance validation service?
- 33) What is the motif-talk mailing list?
- 34) What MIT patches do I use, and when do I use fix-osf?
- 35) How does Motif work with X11R5?
- 36) How can I find which version of Motif I have?
- 37) TOPIC: MOTIF and the WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
- 38) Where's an HTML version of the Motif FAQ on World Wide Web (WWW)?
- 39) What are other interesting WWW URLs which are related to Motif?
- 40)* Is there a central location for Motif information on the WWW?
- 41)* Which X and Motif developers have their own home page URLs?
- 42)* Where can I get the HTML widget used in Mosaic?
- 43) TOPIC: BOOKS and JOURNALS
- 44) Is there a bibliography available?
- 45) Is there a Motif tutorial?
- 46)* What books are available for Motif programmers?
- 47) Which Xt and X books would also be helpful?
- 48) Are there books for X11R6 yet?
- 49) What relevant journals are available?
- 50) TOPIC: MWM and the SHELL WIDGET
- 51) What is the difference between Motif and mwm?
- 52) Does anyone have an alternative set of 3-D defaults for a monochrome
screen?
- 53) How can I modify the Motif window manager decorations?
- 54) Is there an ICCCM compliant way of setting window manager decorations?
- 55) How can I put decorations on transient windows using olwm?
- 56) How can I turn off the Motif window manager functions from the system
menu?
- 57) How can I keep my shell windows fixed in size?
- 58) How can my application know when the user has quit Mwm?
- 59)* How can I tell if the user has selected "Close" from the system menu? How
do I catch the "Close"?
- 60) Is there an mwm virtual desktop manager?
- 61) Why does mwm 1.2 crash on startup?
- 62) How do I obtain the size of a unmanaged shell widget?
- 63) How can I create a shell widget with a non-default visual type?
- 64) TOPIC: MOTIF DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (GUI BUILDERS and UIMS's)
- 65) What GUI tools exist to assist in developing Motif applications?
- 66) TOPIC: GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT
- 67) Why is geometry management so important?
- 68) What are good references for reading about geometry management?
- 69) Why don't my labels resize in a RowColumn widget?
- 70) Why do dialogs appear smaller under 1.2.3 and later?
- 71) How does the ScrolledWindow manage resizing?
- 72) Does the XmPanedWindow widget support horizontal paning?
- 73) TOPIC: TEXT WIDGET
- 74) How do XmTextField and a single line XmText widget differ?
- 75) Why does pressing <return> in a text widget do nothing?
- 76) When I add text to a scrolling text widget, how can I get the new text to
show?
- 77)+ How do I scroll text to display the most recently added information?
- 78) Does the text widget support 16 bit character fonts?
- 79) How can I stop the text widget from echoing characters typed?
- 80) How can I replace characters typed with say a `*'?
- 81) How can I best add a large piece of text to a scrolled text widget?
- 82) How can I highlight text in the Text widget?
- 83) How can I select all of the text in a widget programmatically?
- 84) How can I change colours of text in the Text widget?
- 85) How can I change the font of text in the Text widget?
- 86) Is there an emacs binding for the text widget?
- 87) What if I have problems with the backspace/delete keys?
- 88) How can I use a file as the text source for a Text widget?
- 89) How can put Text in overstrike mode instead of insert?
- 90) How can I make the Delete key do a Backspace?
- 91) Can I change the tab stops in the XmText widget?
- 92) TOPIC: LIST WIDGET
- 93) Should I create an XmList widget as a child of automatic XmScrolledWindow
or use the XmCreateScrolledList() convenience function?
- 94) How do I best put a new set of items into a list?
- 95) Can I have strings with different fonts in a list?
- 96) Can I get a bitmap to show in a list item like I can in a Label?
- 97) Can I have items with different colours in a list?
- 98) Can I grey out an item in a list?
- 99) Can I have multi-line items in a list?
- 100) How can I tell the position of selected items in a list?
- 101) TOPIC: FILE SELECTION BOX WIDGET
- 102) What is libPW.a and do I need it?
- 103) What are these compile errors: Undefined symbol _regcmp and _regex?
- 104) What's wrong with the Motif 1.0 File Selection Box?
- 105) What's wrong with the FileSelectionBox under Solaris?
- 106) TOPIC: FORM WIDGET
- 107) Why don't labels in a Form resize when the label is changed?
- 108) How can I center a widget in a form?
- 109) How do I line up two columns of widgets of different types?
- 110) TOPIC: PUSHBUTTON WIDGET
- 111) Why can't I use accelerators on buttons not in a menu?
- 112) TOPIC: ICON WIDGET
- 113) How can I add multi-colored icons to my application?
- 114) How can I convert a Sun/GIF/TIFF image to a pixmap?
- 115) TOPIC: SCALE WIDGET
- 116) Can the XmScale widget have arrows or tick marks in Motif 2.0?
- 117) How can I set the color of a XmScale widget's trough?
- 118) TOPIC: LABEL WIDGET
- 119) How can I align the text in a label (button, etc) widget?
- 120) Why doesn't label alignment work in a RowColumn?
- 121) How can I set a multiline label?
- 122) How can I have a vertical label?
- 123) How can I have a Pixmap in a Label?
- 124) Why doesn't the XmLabel widget obey the XmNwith and XmNheight that I
give it?
- 125) TOPIC: DRAWING AREA WIDGET