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From: staatsvr@asdcds.cds.wpafb.af.mil (Vern Staats; ASD/SCED;)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem with Xaw Form and Box widgets
Keywords: Xaw athena widgets form box resizable
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Date: 18 Jul 89 17:48:21 GMT
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Hello, X-Netters

    I've run into a bit of difficulty converting an X10R4 application to X11R3
under DEC Ultrix 3.0.  I'm fairly new to using Xt and the Athena widget set
(and even newer to usenet), so this may be a dumb question.  Here's what I'm 
trying to do:

     +--------------------------------------+ 
     |                  ||                  |
     | +----------------------------------+ |
     | |                                  | |    ||, = 
     | |                 ^                | |    The double lines indicate
     | |                 |                | |    where I've chained a widget
     |=|           <--canvas-->           |=|    to be a fixed distance from
     | |                 |                | |    the edge of the enclosing
     | |                 V                | |    Form widget. 
     | |                                  | |
     | +----------------------------------+ |
     |                  ||                  |
     |       +----------------------+       |
     |       |      button-box      |       |
     |       +----------------------+       |
     | Form             ||                  |
     +--------------------------------------+

The "canvas" widget is a Label (for now) and should resize in conjunction with
its parent Form.  I'd like button-box to maintain a fixed size based on the 
font used in its command buttons.  I've tried button-box as both a Box
and a Form widget.  In both cases it resizes when I resize its parent Form,
even if I've set the XtNresizable attribute to false for button-box and the
buttons inside it.  
 
    Two questions:
1)  Does XtNresizable really work?
2)  Is there a way to force all buttons in a Box widget to stay on the same
    row?  Just making the box wide enough (XtNwidth) doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance.

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