re writing a motif widget in article c wapj dd ibmpcug co uk nicholas ibmpcug co uk nicholas young writes i need probably to write one or more new motif widgets on the hp ux platform do i need the motif private header files and source or can i make do with the public headers that are provided motif includes xt in this context yes you ll find it almost impossible without the source at this point it does depend on how ambitious you are and how concerned you are about compliance with the general interface and items like traversal one widget is a multi column list which lots of people have already written i am sure and would therefore be probably be a subclass of list rather than something simple like an xt class is this more difficult in principle not lines of code i m not sure what you re asking you could create something which is very much like a true multi column list by placing several lists within a geometry manager and putting that manager within an automatic scrolled window this wouldn t be good for very large lists but you might consider this as an alternative alternatively if anyone has a multi column list widget they could sell me this might save me from having to write one does it by any chance exist in motif already i do not yet have the spec motif does not have a multi column list in it have you looked at commercial sets there are also some pd widget sets one of these might have a multi column list you could port douglas s rand drand osf org osf motif dev snail cambridge center cambridge ma disclaimer i don t know if osf agrees with me let s vote on it amateur radio kc kj
