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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
Design of an automatic ScrolledWindow
The work window can be almost any widget, but there can be only one work window per ScrolledWindow. If you
want to have more than one widget inside of a ScrolledWindow, you can place all of the widgets in a manager widget
and make that manager the work window. The clip window is always the size of the viewport portion of the
ScrolledWindow, which is the size of the ScrolledWindow minus the size of the ScrollBars and any borders and
margins. The clip window is not adjusted in size unless the ScrolledWindow is resized. The clip window is always
positioned at the origin, which means that you cannot use XtMoveWidget() or change its XmNx and XmNy
resources to reposition it in the ScrolledWindow. The internals of the ScrolledWindow are solely responsible for
changing the view in the clip window, although you can affect this behavior. While you can get a handle to the clip
window, you cannot remove it or replace it with another window.
10.1.2 The Application−defined Scrolling Model
In the application−defined scrolling model, which is the default model, the ScrolledWindow always makes itself the
same size as the work window. Just as for automatic scrolling, the application must provide the work window as a
child of the ScrolledWindow. The main reason to use application−defined scrolling is if the work window contains
more data than can possibly be loaded in the ...
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