XmOutline - Man Page

The Outline widget class

Synopsis

#include <Xm/Outline.h>

Description

The Outline widget is a container that shows the relationship of its children in a  graphical tree-like format. Each child of the Outline widget is a node in the Outline.  The parent-child relationships between these nodes are completely distinct from the  widget hierarchy. The hierarchy of nodes is created by specifying the tree "parent" of  each node as a constraint resource. If a node's parent is NULL then it is assumed to  be a root of the tree. Although each widget can only have one parent, the Outline widget  supports adding more than one "root" node to a single Outline.

Note: The Outline widget assumes that it will be totally responsible for mapping  and unmapping its children. Therefore no child of this widget should ever modify its  mappedWhenManaged resource. If a child does modify this resource the behavior is  undefined.

User Interaction

Each node in the outline can have one of four states: open, closed, always open, and  hidden. The state of a node changes how it appears to the user and what actions are  available to the user.

Open This node will have an open folder shown to its left that  may be selected by the user to close this node. When a  node is open all of its children will be visible to the user.

Closed This node will have a closed folder shown to its left that  may be selected by the user to open this node. When a  node is closed none of its children will be visible to the  user.

Always Open This node will have no folder button associated with it.  All of its children will be visible to the user.

Hidden This node will not be shown to the user and all of its  children will appear and act exactly as if they were  children of this node's parent. It will appear to the user  as if this node does not exist.

To maintain consistency of the user interface we have found that it is best to use the  node state "Always Open" for nodes with no children. This way the user will only see  a folder button next to a node that has children to display. A folder button associated  with a node that has no children has no defined semantics.

Classes

Outline inherits behavior and resources from the Core, Composite, Constraint, XmManager, and XmHierarchy  classes.

The class pointer is xmOutlineWidgetClass.

The class name is XmOutline.

New Resources

The following table defines a set of widget resources used by the programmer to specify data. The programmer can also set the resource values for the inherited classes to set attributes for this widget. To reference a resource by name or by class in a .Xdefaults file, remove the XmN or XmC prefix and use the remaining letters. To specify one of the defined values for a resource in a .Xdefaults file, remove the Xm prefix and use the remaining letters (in either lowercase or uppercase, but include any underscores between words). The codes in the access column indicate if the given resource can be set at creation time (C), set by using XtSetValues (S), retrieved by using XtGetValues (G), or is not applicable (N/A).

XmOutline Resource Set
NameClassTypeDefaultAccess





XmNconnectNodesBooleanBooleanFalseCSG





XmNindentSpaceDimensionDimension30CSG





XmNconnectNodes

Specifies whether to draw lines connecting a parent to each of its children nodes.

XmNindentSpace

This resource controls how many pixels divide the outline's levels

Inherited Resources

Outline inherits behavior and resources from the superclasses described in the following tables. For a complete description of each resource, refer to the reference page for that superclass.

XmHierarchy Resource Set
NameClassTypeDefaultAccess





XmNautoCloseXmCAutoCloseBooleanTrueCSG





XmNcloseFolderPixmapXmCPixmapPixmapXmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAPCSG





XmNhorizontalMarginXmCDimensionDimension2CSG





XmNnodeStateCallbackXmCNodeStateCallbackXtCallbackListNULLC





XmNopenFolderPixmapXmCPixmapPixmapXmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAPCSG





XmNrefigureModeXmCBooleanBooleanTrueCSG





XmNverticalMarginXmCDimensionDimension2CSG





XmManager Resource Set
NameClassTypeDefaultAccess





XmNbottomShadowColorXmCBottomShadowColorPixeldynamicCSG





XmNbottomShadowPixmapXmCBottomShadowPixmapPixmapXmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAPCSG





XmNforegroundXmCForegroundPixeldynamicCSG





XmNhelpCallbackXmCCallbackXtCallbackListNULLC





XmNhighlightColorXmCHighlightColorPixeldynamicCSG





XmNhighlightPixmapXmCHighlightPixmapPixmapdynamicCSG





XmNinitialFocusXmCInitialFocusWidgetdynamicCSG





XmNlayoutDirectionXmCLayoutDirectionXmDirectiondynamicCG





XmNnavigationTypeXmCNavigationTypeXmNavigationTypeXmTAB_GROUPCSG





XmNpopupHandlerCallbackXmCCallbackXtCallbackListNULLC





XmNshadowThicknessXmCShadowThicknessDimensiondynamicCSG





XmNstringDirectionXmCStringDirectionXmStringDirectiondynamicCG





XmNtopShadowColorXmCTopShadowColorPixeldynamicCSG





XmNtopShadowPixmapXmCTopShadowPixmapPixmapdynamicCSG





XmNtraversalOnXmCTraversalOnBooleanTrueCSG





XmNunitTypeXmCUnitTypeunsigned chardynamicCSG





XmNuserDataXmCUserDataXtPointerNULLCSG





Composite Resource Set
NameClassTypeDefaultAccess





XmNchildrenXmCReadOnlyWidgetListNULLG





XmNinsertPositionXmCInsertPositionXtOrderProcNULLCSG





XmNnumChildrenXmCReadOnlyCardinal0G





Core Resource Set
NameClassTypeDefaultAccess





XmNacceleratorsXmCAcceleratorsXtAcceleratorsdynamicN/A





XmNancestorSensitiveXmCSensitiveBooleandynamicG





XmNbackgroundXmCBackgroundPixeldynamicCSG





XmNbackgroundPixmapXmCPixmapPixmapXmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAPCSG





XmNborderColorXmCBorderColorPixelXtDefaultForegroundCSG





XmNborderPixmapXmCPixmapPixmapXmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAPCSG





XmNborderWidthXmCBorderWidthDimension0CSG





XmNcolormapXmCColormapColormapdynamicCG





XmNdepthXmCDepthintdynamicCG





XmNdestroyCallbackXmCCallbackXtCallbackListNULLC





XmNheightXmCHeightDimensiondynamicCSG





XmNinitialResourcesPersistentXmCInitialResourcesPersistentBooleanTrueC





XmNmappedWhenManagedXmCMappedWhenManagedBooleanTrueCSG





XmNscreenXmCScreenScreen *dynamicCG





XmNsensitiveXmCSensitiveBooleanTrueCSG





XmNtranslationsXmCTranslationsXtTranslationsdynamicCSG





XmNwidthXmCWidthDimensiondynamicCSG





XmNxXmCPositionPosition0CSG





XmNyXmCPositionPosition0CSG





Geometry Management

The preferred size of the entire outline will be just large enough to contain all nodes  in the hierarchy. As the node state changes the outline will attempt to resize itself to  just contain its currently visible children. If the outline is forced away from its desired  size the children will not be moved and will either be clipped, or appear in the upper  left hand corner of the window. For this reason it is usually desirable to put the outline  into a Scrolled Window widget.

Referenced By

XmCreateOutline(3), XmVaCreateOutline(3).