[plt-scheme] Grid or Table Widget

From: Katsmall T. Wise, Esquire (kela_bit at netvision.net.il)
Date: Mon Jun 9 08:57:34 EDT 2003

Ed Cavazos wrote:

>  For list-related administrative tasks:
>  http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
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>I remember various occasions when folks on this list asked about the
>existence of a "grid" or "table" widget. Did anyone ever make one?
>
>I have a Linux process browser:
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>        http://www.theworld.com/~proteus/system-processes.png
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>I'd like to show the pid, owner, and command for each entry. One thing
>I tried was to put all three items in a nicely formatted string, and
>put those into the list-box% object. However, the non-fixed-width font
>means that the columns don't line up properly.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can achieve the desired
>formatting using the existing MrEd widgets? I thought about using an
>editor object with a fixed width font, and dumping the lines to that.
>
>Ed
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There's a kind of list box, can't remember its name at the moment, which 
has a style for each item.
With it you can set the family of each item to 'modern and it should work.

Yours truly,
Katsmall T. Wise, Esquire



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