Motif FAQ (Part 4 of 9)

• Introduction
• 77) Is there an mwm virtual desktop manager?
• 78) Why does mwm 1.2 crash on startup?
• 79) How do I obtain the size of a unmanaged shell widget?
• 80) How can I create a shell widget with a non-default visual type?
• 81) Can a non-shell Motif widget have a different visual type from
• 82) Why do I get BadMatch errors from my menus when I use a non-
• 83) How do I popup a scrolled list on top of other widgets?
• 84) How can I keep my application's window always on top of all
• 85) TOPIC: MOTIF DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (GUI BUILDERS and UIMS's)
• 86) What GUI tools exist to assist in developing Motif applications?
• 87) TOPIC: GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT
• 88) Why is geometry management so important?
• 89) What are good references for reading about geometry management?
• 90) Why don't my labels resize in a RowColumn widget? I have a
• 91) Why do composite widgets (including dialogs) that were created
• 92) How does the ScrolledWindow manage resizing?
• 93) Does the XmPanedWindow widget support horizontal paning?
• 94) TOPIC: TEXT WIDGET
• 95) How do XmTextField and a single line XmText widget differ?
• 96) Why does pressing RETURN in a text widget do nothing? This
• 97) Can you reuse the return value from XtParseTranslationTable?
• 98) When I add text to a scrolling text widget, how can I get the
• 99) How do I scroll text to display the most recently added
• 100) Does the text widget support 16 bit character fonts?
• 101) How can I stop the text widget from echoing characters typed?
• 102) How can I replace characters typed with say a `*'? I want to
• 103) How can I best add a large piece of text to a scrolled text
• 104)+ How can I get the correct colors for scrolled text widget
• 105) How can I highlight text in the Text widget?
• 106) How can I select all of the text in a widget programmatically?
• 107) Can I customize the pointer cursor or insert position indicator
• 108) How can I change colours of text in the Text widget? I want
• 109) How can I change the font of text in the Text widget? I want
• 110) Is there an emacs binding for the text widget?
• 111) What if I have problems with the backspace/delete keys?
• 112) How can I use a file as the text source for a Text widget?
• 113) How can put Text in overstrike mode instead of insert?
• 114) How can I make the Delete key do a Backspace? Related
• 115) Can I change the tab stops in the XmText widget?