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Menus and Buttons

#780
From: Eduardo E. Horvath eeh
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 14:31
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I created a very nice complex glyph that was difficult to build and contained
a large set of palette buttons.  I was hoping to use an instance of this glyph
in a dialog, and another in a menu.  I am quite disappointed that if I put
the glyph in a menu, I cannot select individual buttons.

Would it be possible to merge Buttons and MenuItems in a future version of
Interviews?  This would allow the use of all of the fancy layout glyphs
in menus and separators outside menus.

I also discovered that a button placed inside a button does not get any input
(3.1-beta2).  The only way I managed to work around this was to use an overlay,
but that makes formatting quite painful.  

There needs to be a method to build a subclassed glyph through a WidgetKit
without needing to subclass or re-implement the WidgetKit.  This is the only
way to add new functionality and remain look-and-feel neuteral.

Finally, I have found a need for a Motif-style row/column glyph that forces
all of the sub-glyphs to the same size.  The current solution is to force each
sub-glyph to a fixed size, someting that does not allow the sub-glyphs to
change easily.
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From: eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com)
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Subject: Menus and Buttons
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Date: 6 Oct 92 14:31:02 GMT
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