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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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FileSelectionDialog resources:
XmNfilterLabelString XmNdirListLabelString
XmNfileListLabelString
Command resources:
XmNpromptString
The labels and callbacks of the various buttons in the action area are specified by resources based on the standard
Motif dialog button names. For example, the XmNokLabelString resource is used to set the label for the OK
button. XmNokCallback is used to specify the callback routine that the dialog should call when that button is
activated. As discussed earlier, it may be appropriate to change the labels of these buttons, but the resource and
callback names will always have names that correspond to their default labels.
The XmNmessageString resource specifies the message that is displayed by the MessageDialog. The
XmNsymbolPixmap resource specifies the iconic symbol that is associated with each of the MessageDialog types.
This resource is rarely changed, so discussion of it is deferred until Chapter 21, Advanced Dialog Programming.
The other resources apply to the different types of selection dialogs. For example, -XmNselectionLabelString
sets the label that is placed above the list area in SelectionDialog. These resources are discussed in Chapter 6,
Selection Dialogs.
All of these resources apply to the Labels and PushButtons in the different dialogs. It is important to note that they are
different from the usual resources for Labels and PushButtons. For example, the Label resource XmNlabelString
would normally be used to specify the label for both Label and ...
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