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Subject: RE: EDM Text Control Widget Motif behavior
From: "Sinclair, John William" <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Hill <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 21:53:11 -0500

Bruce,

 

I don’t thinks that’s true. Let me look a bit and see if I can fix this.

 

I have some pressing family issues at the moment so progress might be delayed.

 

Best,

John Sinclair

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hill
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 9:37 PM
To: Isadoro Carlino
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EDM Text Control Widget Motif behavior

 

Hi Terry,
I've been bothered by the same lack of alignment in
our edm text controls.   Your email got me thinking about
it and I looked into it more.    It appears the root problem
is that the motif XmTextField widget that this edm widget
is based on does not support alignment!

See Looking for TextField with right-align

There are some commercial solutions
Oracle Complex Text Layout Extensions to Motif
ICS Motif EnhancementPak
but I haven't found any open src solution yet.

Regards,
- Bruce


On 02/20/2013 12:28 PM, Isadoro Carlino wrote:

Noted a "feature" of the EDM Text Control Widget. If motif is selected the Font justification control has no effect. The text will always be at the top left corner of the widget input field. This makes some kinds of widget positioning, especially using code generated screens difficult. We're using edm version 1-11-1zm with Text Control major 4 minor 1 version.
Does anyone know if this has been fixed in later version of EDM or is it a function of using motif? The widget font justification works as expected if motif isn't selected, unfortunately you are then left with a separate dialog box opening for input. I also know that the Textentry Widget allows direct entry without motif, but it does not allow units to be surpressed and lacks many of the other features of Text Control.
Any help would be appreciated, before I try to tear into the widget code myself to see if I can fix the problem.

Terry Carlino

 



-- 
Bruce Hill
Member Technical Staff
SLAC National Accelerator Lab
2575 Sand Hill Road M/S 10
Menlo Park, CA  94025

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