Motif FAQ (Part 5 of 9)

• Introduction
• 116) TOPIC: LIST WIDGET
• 117) Should I create an XmList widget as a child of automatic
• 118) How do I best put a new set of items into a list?
• 119) Can I have strings with different fonts in a list?
• 120) Can I get a bitmap to show in a list item like I can in a
• 121) Can I have items with different colors in a list?
• 122) How can I line up columns in a list?
• 123) Can I grey out an item in a list? I want to make insensitive
• 124) Can I have multi-line items in a list?
• 125) How can I tell the position of selected items in a list?
• 126) How can I configure a scrolled list widget to show a horizontal
• 127) TOPIC: FILE SELECTION BOX WIDGET
• 128) What is libPW.a and do I need it? My manual says I need to
• 129) What are these compile errors: Undefined symbol _regcmp and
• 130) What's wrong with the Motif 1.0 File Selection Box? I can't
• 131) How can I keep my file selection boxes from resizing when I
• 132) What's wrong with the FileSelectionBox under Solaris?
• 133) TOPIC: FORM WIDGET
• 134) Why don't labels in a Form resize when the label is changed?
• 135) How can I center a widget in a form?
• 136) How do I line up two columns of widgets of different types? I
• 137) TOPIC: PUSHBUTTON WIDGET
• 138) Why can't I use accelerators on buttons not in a menu?
• 139) TOPIC: TOGGLEBUTTON WIDGET
• 140) What widgets give the look of push buttons, but behavior of
• 141) Can I customize XmToggleButton to use my own indicator graphic
• 142) TOPIC: ICON WIDGET and PIXMAPS
• 143) How can I add multi-colored icons to my application?
• 144) Can I use XmGetPixmap in Motif 1.2 to create colored images?
• 145) Why does XpmCreatePixmapFromData fail with a pixmap containing
• 146) How can I convert a Sun/GIF/TIFF image to a pixmap?
• 147) How can I use Motif's pre-defined pixmaps?
• 148) TOPIC: SCALE AND SCROLLBAR WIDGET
• 149) Can the XmScale widget have arrows or tick marks in Motif 2.0?
• 150) How can I set the color of a XmScale widget's trough?
• 151) How does Motif implement mouse button auto-repeat on the
• 152) TOPIC: LABEL WIDGET
• 153) How can I align the text in a label (button, etc) widget?
• 154) Why doesn't label alignment work in a RowColumn?
• 155) How can I set a multiline label?
• 156) How can I have a vertical label?
• 157) How can I have a Pixmap in a Label?
• 158) Why doesn't the XmLabel widget obey the XmNwith and XmNheight
• 159) How do you set the background color of a label widget using