Introduction

Overview

Introduction

The INT EditTable widget is a set of programming tools to help you create advanced spreadsheet and table-oriented data displays in the X Window/Motif environment. EditTable makes it easy to control all aspects of a table display, from the simple arrangement of titles, annotations, margins, color, and shading, to the more complex aspects of data formatting, validation, and hardcopy output.

Widget Components

EditTable is one of several INT widgets derived from the Motif XmManager widget class. Used together, these widgets provide not only advanced table features, but the ability to display and edit graphic objects, produce charts, and generate hardcopy in many popular formats. All INT widgets have the following standard components:

• Xint resources let you control the widget's "look and feel."
• Xint convenience functions allow applications to directly populate, query, and control the data and format of the table.
• Xint action routines help control cursor and pointer movements and the selection, deletion, or saving of objects.
• Xint callbacks provide ways to modify data tables in response to user actions.

EditTable provides over 100 resources (in addition to Motif base class resources), over 50 action routines, over 100 functions, and many callbacks. All are designed to provide familiar tools you will recognize, without the time-consuming complexity of X/Motif programming.

Summary of Major Features and Benefits

The INT Widget and Object Libraries are designed to provide the following specific features and benefits:

• Rapid development of portable applications.
• Full graphics editing capability in addition to graphics display capability.
• High-level building blocks reusable in a wide variety of applications.
• Built-in hardcopy support so an application programmer doesn't have to worry about hardcopy implementation.
• Object oriented programming design.
• Insulate application programmers from the complexity of Xlib.
• Decrease application design errors and programming errors.
• Decrease the cost of application enhancements and debugging.
• Allow inexperienced X/Motif programmers to successfully develop maintainable applications that meet user requirements.
• Combine broad widget functionality with ease of use.
• Provide all resources and functions needed to control any aspect of a object's behavior and appearance.
• Provide all resources, actions and dialog boxes needed by end users to control object behavior and appearance, thereby freeing the application programmer to spend time developing other aspects of the application.