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I am currently experiencing the following problems using Devguide with golit:

1.  I can't change the default font that Devguide displays/uses.  I can change
    the font that my application uses, but then the button labels and button
    layout that Devguide has arranged are skewed and do not conform to the
    new font.  

2.  There seems to be no implementation of Open Look's form widget class in
    Devguide.  The only general purpose contraint widget I can find is the
    control area.  However this only allows a row/column/absoluteXY type layout
    and does not have the advantages of the form class which allow repositioning
    of one widget when it's neighbor grows or shrinks  (I really need this !!!)

3.  I cannot seem to disable the InputFocus mechanism with ScrollingList
    widgets and MenuButton widgets.  I do not want these buttons or items to
    turn Red!!!  Setting the inputFocusColor resource to the backgroundColor
    has the effect of enabling Monochrome display characteristics--where
    the "focused" widget switches to reverse video.  The "sunk in" 3d effect
    that "touching" a ScrollingList item (with the function returned by 
    applTouchItem) produces is perfect for me, I do not need (or want)
    the extra red highlight or reverse video.  The same with the
    Menu Button.  I want to use this ScrollingList simply as a selection 
    mechanism, none of the items need to be editable.

4.  For some peculiar reason I cannot set the "canvas pane" or DrawArea
    widget's backgroundPixmap resource.  When I attempt this and execute the
    program I get an X error: BadMatch.  This seems to be telling me that I
    am setting the backgroundPixmap resource of an Input Only window.  What??
    Isn't the window of my GUI automatically an InputOutput window???  It 
    accepts all kinds of keyboard and mouse commands just fine, and certainly 
    a DrawArea widget is intended to be used as a place to "draw" things.  
    The other possibility is that when I create the Pixmap which is assigned 
    to the backgroundPixmap resource, that I somehow specify the wrong 
    display or drawable to XCreateBitmapFromData.  

    This is a difficulty in working with Devguide's tree-structure.  How do I
    get a legitimate widget value to pass to function such as XtDisplay or
    XtScreen so that I can obtain a display and drawable?  Is the *parent*
    argument passed to me inside my create (user-specified procedure called 
    at the creation of a widget by golit) funtion an appropriate widget ID to 
    use??  That is what I am doing, but I am still experiencing these BadMatch 
    problems.

I haven't been following this group for more than 3 or 4 weeks, but is everyone
else as frustrated with this product as I am??  The documentation is 
ridiculous.  It seems that it isn't even aimed at programmers, but rather some
moron that wants to play around with the 'pretty control panel' and make
an executive decision-maker toy or something.

Please!!  I am desperate for help here.  Does anyone know what is going on?
I suppose it is ludicrous to think that Sun has an e-mail address for technical
support on their products, but is there someone that you folks have found
over there that is intelligent and is close to the group that wrote this 
product and can answer questions like these over the phone?  Everyone I seem 
to be able to get a hold of knows absolutely nothing.

post responses, or e-mail to addr. below   THANK YOU 
(netnews! what a wonderful concept!)

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