Re: Motif Style Gui

["Terry Crook" <terry-at-cqg.com>]

Hi,

I'm currently programming in windows, so I don't know how pertinent
this is, but can you handle key-up and key-down events rather than
keystrokes?

++
Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Proctor <proctor-at-cme.nist.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Motif Style Gui


>
>John Moore provided a true GUI expert's critique of the EMC GUIs and
>suggested improvements. They all sound good to me. I don't think there
>will be many complaints about changing operating instructions since the
>improvements all make it more intuitive to use. I say go ahead.
>
>Regarding Motif, my brief look into X programming told me you have to
>pay for the Motif development libraries, but lesstif is free. John, you
>probably know more about this than I do. True? I was trying to avoid
>requiring that people pay anything for software development if they
>wanted to recompile from scratch.
>
>My experience in building GUIs is that using the keyboard for jogging is
>a real pain, due to the keyboard repeat. If you look at xemc.cc, or
>tkemc.tcl, you can see the horrible things I had to do to debounce
>keyboard repeats. Key repeats can be disables globally (xset -r), but
>then you lose arrow-key-rapid-movement through editors. Is there a good
>way to do this?
>
>--Fred