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Old 11-20-2002
Tools fixed-width printf() output on an XmList on Solaris
This one is a bit of bugger and I'm not sure if it's entirely relevant to this board but here goes...

I'm trying to produce some fixed width output to a List widget (X11/Motif GUI) So, I use something similar to:

sprintf(Buffer, "%*d%*f", 20, some_integer, 20, some_float);

This gives me a nice fixed-width string, which I then have to convert to an XmString and then add that to the List widget.

My problem is, after adding multiple lines, the columns are not aligned. On some machines they are (for instance if I remote shell from a Windows box using ReflectX), but on the host the output does not align.

Most of my widgets use the system default font, through which in Motif (as I understand it) you specify by using XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG in most of your XmString updates. I have a feeling that the font the host uses is not fixed-width - but I wouldn't have a clue where to change the font or what font it is using. Is it quite possible for X to use non fixed-width fonts?

Perhaps this is better targeted to a Motif forum, but thought it was worth a shot....

Thx in advance Smilie
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xmlistreplaceitemsunselected

XmListReplaceItemsUnselected(3X)										  XmListReplaceItemsUnselected(3X)

NAME

       XmListReplaceItemsUnselected - A List function that replaces items in a list

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/List.h>

       void XmListReplaceItemsUnselected (widget, old_items, item_count, new_items)
	       Widget widget;
	       XmString *old_items;
	       int item_count;
	       XmString *new_items;

DESCRIPTION

       XmListReplaceItemsUnselected  replaces  each  specified item in the list with a corresponding new item.	The replacement items remain unse-
       lected, even if they currently appear in the XmNselectedItems list.  Specifies the ID of the List widget to replace items in.  Specifies  a
       pointer	to  the list items to be replaced.  Specifies the number of elements in old_items and new_items. This number must be non-negative.
       Specifies a pointer to the replacement items.  Every occurrence of each element of old_items is replaced  with  the  corresponding  element
       from  new_items.  That is, the first element of old_items is replaced with the first element of new_items.  The second element of old_items
       is replaced with the second element of new_items, and so on until item_count is reached.  If an element in old_items does not exist in  the
       list, the corresponding entry in new_items is skipped.

       For a complete definition of List and its associated resources, see XmList(3X).

SEE ALSO

       XmList(3X)

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