[Xastir] List dialog improvements ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, William McKeehan wrote:

> I was looking at the station list dialog boxes during an event this weekend
> and I see a number of improvements that can be made to them.
>
> It looks like there are a few RFE's already in the database for these
> enhancements (like click to sort, click to act on, etc).
>
> Is anyone working on these enhancements? Anyone have them on their list that
> the would like to get to?

I don't believe anyone has that on their immediate horizon.


> It seems like the GUI library should have some multi-column interface that
> would let you do some of these things (MS Excel type functions pop to my mind,
> change column size, click to sort, "AutoFilter", etc).
>
> Can someone point me to some documentation on the GUI that is being used? I'd
> like to look over it to see if I can learn enough to be able to implement any
> of these enhancements - note, I'm not much of a C programmer, so this will
> take me a long time so no one get excited yet.

We currently code at all of these layers:  Motif, Xlib, and Xt.  All
X11 (Xwindows) GUI stuff.  I've got an armload of O'Reilly books
that I use for this, something like 2 thick books for each of these
layers plus another few books besides.  There are some tutorials on
the 'net about X-windows programming, but I'm not sure whether you
could get enough out of those to be a proficient X11 programmer.

Then again, hacking on someone else's code is easier than starting
from scratch, so you might do just fine.

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