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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference

Text-Display Field (Control)

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Description

A text-display field is a text field in which noneditable text can be displayed and selected.

Figure 69. Text-Display Field.




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When to Use

Recommended
Provide a text display field when you display a value or values that the user cannot change, but that can accept the input focus to allow data transfer operations.

Guidelines

Required
Allow the user to select the text in a text-display field.

Required
Allow the user to scroll the text in a text-display field when more information is available than can be displayed at any one time.

Recommended
Outline a text-display field with a thin unbroken line of a solid color specified by the operating environment.

Essential Related Topics

For more information, see the Control, Static Text, and Text-Entry Field (Control) reference pages.

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