Sam Halliday wrote: > <SNIP> > btw, is there ever any plan to add theme support to lesstif? i think > that would push the upper hand over to lesstif instantly! motif/lesstif, > although widely used and legendary in their day, now look old hat > compared to gtk+/qt.... ok, so it still looks amazing on a sun machine > ;) > > Sam > -- > Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more > deadly in the long run. > -- Mark Twain
unfortunately the online archives I could find do not go back far enough. http://www.mail-archive.com/lesstif@;hungry.com/msg00000.html (2 months too late.) so instead of a link, here are some messages from my old mail box. I remembered the threads and could not help but look for them. :) (sorry Rick) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: slashdot Motif story Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:51:35 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lesstif Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What a thread!! I really get the impression that a lot of people don't know what they are talking about. Window Manager != Widget set Jon and Jamie's comments seem to be the only sane ones. I have to disagree with Jon's comments about backgroundPixmaps though. I write it that way because it is a Core resource. Core means "damn near everything you see on the screen". Try test/Xm/label/test1 -xrm "*backgroundPixmap: /usr/lib/xfilemanager/icons/stopsign.xpm" You will probably have to substitute your own pixmap in here, but I think you should be able to get the picture. There are similar resources for bottomShadowPixmap, topShadowPixmap, etc..... Okay, stock Motif can't do this because they don't have the stringToPixmap converter, but add this and I've been able to do themes since the early 80's!!!! Everything else is just _starting_ to catch up!!!!!! If I had a screen shot of someone's KoOl app and the pixmaps, I think I could make a Motif version that was similar. Maybe the last time some people played with Motif it was a little slow, however the state of the art workstation was also being clocked around 10MHz also. It did also consume alot of resources on the workstation with 1MByte of RAM, but hell, so did cat!!!!! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Motif and themes Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:10:34 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So Motif keeps getting knocked for not being themable. I thought I would grab a simple "theme" from themes.org and show people how wrong they are. I don't have Motif, so this is all with LessTif. The first big problem that you run into is that XmText and XmTextField use XDrawImageString instead of XDrawString. Read the man pages for the subtle difference. Anyway, I would like to find out which one Motif uses. So could someone, Jon??, find a pixmap on their Motif system and try the following...... test/Xm/text/test5 -xrm "*backgrounPixmap: full_path_to_selected_pixmap" and tell me, or show me, what you end up with...... I've changed my Text to use XDrawString and everything appears normal. Well, except that I can't read the text with the pixmap that I used :) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Motif and themes Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:30:03 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Damn, forgot about that. Actually, it seems to depend on which vendors Motif you have, some include xpm stuff. It should work with an xbm's though, I think Motif can handle them. Try.... test/Xm/text/test5 -xrm "*backgroundPixmap: xlogo16" That's usually available....I just figured out where it makes a difference, text selections. But that may be our fault. On 04-Feb-00 at 19:19, Jon A. Christopher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Rick, > > I don't see any difference between running with the xrm flag and without. > Didn't you say that Motif lacks the string to pixmap converter or > something? Is there a way around this in the code? > > -Jon <SNIP> _______________________________________________ Lesstif mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://terror.hungry.com/mailman/listinfo/lesstif
