Widgets Exclusive to Solaris Motif

This section briefly describes the widgets that are exclusive to Solaris Motif.

These widgets are also available for Motif development in the OpenWindows environment, except for the DtTerm, DtEditor, DtComboBox, DtSpinBox, and DtMenuButton widgets.

• DtTerm

  This widget provides the functionality required to emulate an ANSI X3.64-1979-style terminal emulator (specifically a DEC VT220-like terminal with extensions).

• DtEditor

  This widget provides a programmatic interface for editing services such as cut and paste.

• DtComboBox

  This widget is a combination of a text field and a list widget that provides a list of valid choices for the text field. Selecting an item from this list automatically fills the text field with that list item.

• DtSpinBox

  This widget is a convenient user interface control that increments and decrements an arbitrary TextField.

• DtMenuButton

  This widget is a command widget that complements the menu cascading functionality of an XmCascadeButton widget. (OLIT has its own menu button widget, with equivalent functionality to DtMenuButton.)

• XmArrowButton

  This button is a primitive push button widget that displays an arrow label.

• XmCommand

  This is a manager widget that builds a command box and manages the user-selected commands and command history.

• XmDrawnButton

  This button is a primitive push button whose label can be drawn by the program.

• XmFrame

  This manager widget is used to parent a single child and enclose that child with a frame or border.

• XmLabelGadget

  This gadget is a low-overhead object for read-only text.

• XmMainWindow

  This manager widget supports a menu bar, command area, and work area.

• XmPanedWindow

  This manager widget implements resizeable panes within a window.

• XmSelectionBox

  This widget box allows you to select one item from a list in a general dialog box.

• FileSelectionBox

  This widget provides a standard way to select a file (typically for the application to read or write).

The libDtWidget library, which contains the DtComboBox, DtSpinBox, DtMenuButton and DtEditor widgets, depends directly on the following libraries:

• Xm library for the Motif superclass support

• Xt library for creation and manipulation of widgets

• X library for the base X Window System