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317) Can the Notebook widget display non-rectangular "file tabs"?

Is it possible to use the Shape extension to fiddle with the shape of the
major tabs (XmPushButtons right now) to get non-rectangular buttons, going for
that "file tab" look?

[Last modified: May 95]

Answer:  Vania Joloboff <uunet!gr.osf.org!vania> wrote:


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On the Motif 2.0* CD-ROM, in the demos directory, there is a library of
additional widgets lib/Exm.  Among the widgets, there is a ExmTabButton
especially designed to fit within a Notebook. It has a smooth shape like real
tabs in folders.

It also a good example on how to use the new traits and the Xme API for widget
writers.

(Thanks to Ken Lee, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/, for a correction here.)