On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:48:36 +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>Having been reminded that when using some Open Source projects, one
>should contribute to some too (not necessarily the same!) I have
>something to propose. XmListSelectPosPlus is not big (small is beautiful
>and all that...) but solves a problem that sometimes frustrates people:
>how to quickly select many items in an XmList containing very many
>items. Using the XmNselectedItems resource, that can take a *long* time.
>And with Motif1.2, it does not work correctly if there are duplicated
>items. Motif2.1 has XmNselectedPositions, but support for 1.2 is still
>worthwhile (IMHO)
>
>The convenience function acts directly on the internals.
>
>It might go in Xlt under LGPL (IIUC, since *we* have the copyright, the
>fact we already gave it out to some people under BSD license is no
>obstacle to a realease uner LGPL).
>
>Now, after that unbearably long commercial, how do I proceed?
(Neglecting any technical/legal/whatever issues) a good place to
make such code pieces available for the public might be on
our SF website
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lesstif
One could upload it as a patch.
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Alexander Mai
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