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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.
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styles : font_table (iso_latin1 = normal,
iso_cyrillic = russian,
character_set('latin1−bold') = bold);
object root : XmLabel {
arguments {
XmNlabelString = album & " : " & artist & " − " & title;
XmNfontList = styles;
};
};
end module;
The module begins with the definition of three strings, each with a different character set. Two of the character sets
are built−in and one is user−defined. The built−in ones represent two different languages, while the user−defined
character set represents both a language and a font style. The characters in the second string are shown in their
decimal form, as we are unable to print the corresponding characters in this book. You could enter the actual
characters directly with a Cyrillic editor, as they are not control characters. We've specified the character sets
explicitly because we are using more than one language and don't want to worry about the setting of the LANG
environment variable.
The font definitions for the text come next. We define three fonts, one for each string. Each font is defined using an
XLFD font name. We combine the fonts in the styles font list definition, which is where we establish the
connection between the character sets used by the strings and the fonts. The character set names in the compound
string definitions must match the character set names used in the font_table. Finally, we define a Label that
displays the concatenated ...
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