Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

to the DialogShell. The resource only affects the presence of resize handles in the window manager frame; it does not

deal with other window manager controls. See Chapter 16, Interacting With the Window Manager, for details on how

to specify the window manager controls for a DialogShell, or any shell widget, directly.

6.4.6 Dialog Fonts

The BulletinBoard widget provides resources that enable you to specify the fonts that are used for all of the button,

Label, and Text widget descendants of the BulletinBoard. Since Motif dialog widgets are subclassed from the

BulletinBoard, you can use these resources to make sure that the fonts that are used within a dialog are consistent. The

XmNbuttonFontList resource specifies the font list that is used for all of the button descendants of the dialog.

The resource is set on the dialog widget itself, not on its individual children. Similarly, the XmNlabelFontList

resource is used to set the font list for all of the Label descendants of the dialog and XmNtextFontList is used for

all of the Text and TextField descendants.

If one of these resources is not set, the toolkit determines the font list by searching up the widget hierarchy for an

ancestor that is a subclass of BulletinBoard, VendorShell, or MenuShell. If an ancestor is found, the font list resource

is set to the value of that font list resource in the ancestor widget. See Chapter 19, Compound Strings, for more

information on font lists.

You can override the XmNbuttonFontList, XmNlabelFontList, and ...