Composite(3)
NAME
Composite --- The Composite widget class "Composite" "widget class" "Composite"
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
DESCRIPTION
Composite widgets are intended to be containers for other widgets and
can have an arbitrary number of children. Their responsibilities
(implemented either directly by the widget class or indirectly by
Intrinsics functions) include:
* Overall management of children from creation to destruction.
* Destruction of descendants when the composite widget is
destroyed.
* Physical arrangement (geometry management) of a displayable
subset of managed children.
* Mapping and unmapping of a subset of the managed children.
Instances of composite widgets need to specify the order in which
their children are kept. For example, an application may want a
set of command buttons in some logical order grouped by function,
and it may want buttons that represent filenames to be kept in
alphabetical order.
Classes
Composite inherits behavior and resources from Core.
The class pointer is compositeWidgetClass.
The class name is Composite.
New Resources
The following table defines a set of widget resources used by the
programmer to specify data. The programmer can also set the resource
values for the inherited classes to set attributes for this widget. To
reference a resource by name or by class in a .Xdefaults file, remove
the XmN or XmC prefix and use the remaining letters. To specify one of
the defined values for a resource in a .Xdefaults file, remove the Xm
prefix and use the remaining letters (in either lowercase or uppercase,
but include any underscores between words). The codes in the access
column indicate if the given resource can be set at creation time (C),
set by using XtSetValues (S), retrieved by using XtGetValues (G), or is
not applicable (N/A).
Composite Resource Set
Name Class Type Default Access
XmNchildren XmCReadOnly WidgetList NULL G
XmNinsertPosition XmCInsertPosition XtOrderProc NULL CSG
XmNnumChildren XmCReadOnly Cardinal 0 G
XmNchildren
A read-only list of the children of the widget.
XmNinsertPosition
Points to the XtOrderProc function described below.
XmNnumChildren
A read-only resource specifying the length of the list of
children in XmNchildren.
The following procedure pointer in a composite widget instance is of
type XtOrderProc:
Cardinal (* XtOrderProc) (Widget w);
w Specifies the widget.
Composite widgets that allow clients to order their children (usually
homogeneous boxes) can call their widget instance's XmNinsertPosition
procedure from the class's insert_child procedure to determine where a
new child should go in its children array. Thus, a client of a
composite class can apply different sorting criteria to widget
instances of the class, passing in a different XmNinsertPosition
procedure when it creates each composite widget instance.
The return value of the XmNinsertPosition procedure indicates how many
children should go before the widget. A value of 0 (zero) indicates
that the widget should go before all other children; returning the
value of XmNumChildren indicates that it should go after all other
children. By default, unless a subclass or an application provides an
XmNinsertPosition procedure, each child is inserted at the end of the
XmNchildren list. The XmNinsertPosition procedure can be overridden by
a specific composite widget's resource list or by the argument list
provided when the composite widget is created.
Inherited Resources
Composite inherits behavior and resources from the superclass described
in the following table. For a complete description of each resource,
refer to the reference page for that superclass.
Core Resource Set
Name Class Type Default Access
XmNaccelerators XmCAccelerators XtAccelerators dynamic CSG
XmNancestorSensitive XmCSensitive Boolean dynamic G
XmNbackground XmCBackground Pixel dynamic CSG
XmNbackgroundPixmap XmCPixmap Pixmap XmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAP CSG
XmNborderColor XmCBorderColor Pixel XtDefaultForeground CSG
XmNborderPixmap XmCPixmap Pixmap XmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAP CSG
XmNborderWidth XmCBorderWidth Dimension 1 CSG
XmNcolormap XmCColormap Colormap dynamic CG
XmNdepth XmCDepth int dynamic CG
XmNdestroyCallback XmCCallback XtCallbackList NULL C
XmNheight XmCHeight Dimension dynamic CSG
XmNinitialResourcesPersistent XmCInitialResourcesPersistent Boolean True C
XmNmappedWhenManaged XmCMappedWhenManaged Boolean True CSG
XmNscreen XmCScreen Screen * dynamic CG
XmNsensitive XmCSensitive Boolean True CSG
XmNtranslations XmCTranslations XtTranslations dynamic CSG
XmNwidth XmCWidth Dimension dynamic CSG
XmNx XmCPosition Position 0 CSG
XmNy XmCPosition Position 0 CSG
Translations
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