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From: ben@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem resizing widgets
Message-ID: <100920084@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 20:43:59 GMT
References: <9750@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> ...
>    Once the workspaces have been created, I call XtResizeWidget
> on them, to make them the right sizes, but it doesn't work.  I've
> tried every trick I could think of, and none of them work.

Try using XtSetValues (XtNwidth, XtNheight) instead of XtResizeWidget.

The HP widgets were written with the philosophy that the manager widget
has the final say regarding any of its children's sizes.  Having the
application calling XtResizeWidget subverts (i.e. breaks ;-) this
paradigm.  I believe that this paradigm (the parent controls the 
children's geometry, not the application) is the operative principle 
throughout the Xt Intrinsics.

> 		      Bill

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